Insights / Attention share of OpenRouter traffic
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Who's getting the tokens?
Share of OpenRouter token volume, daily, classified against the LLMap catalog — by weights class and by lab HQ country.
Open models
41%
US labs
23%
China labs
45%
Latest day in the series
On Wed, Sep 30, labs based in China took 45% of the tokens routed through OpenRouter; labs based in the US took 23%, and 32% went to labs elsewhere or to models we have not matched.
Labs based in ChinaLabs based in the USOther countries, or not matched
Hatched: labs based outside the US and China, plus tokens we could not match to any model. We cannot yet tell those two apart here. Point at any day to rewrite the sentence for it.
Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-09-30 · weights & country classification: LLMap catalog · token counts use each provider's own tokenizer — read as relative attention share, not absolute compute
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LLMap (2026). "Attention share of OpenRouter traffic: US labs vs China labs." llmap.ai/insights/market-share?tab=country. Data as of 2026-09-30. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-09-30.<iframe src="https://llmap.ai/insights/market-share/embed?tab=country" width="820" height="480" style="border:0;max-width:100%;aspect-ratio:820/480" title="LLMap insight: Attention share of OpenRouter traffic: US labs vs China labs" loading="lazy"></iframe>CC BY 4.0 — reuse freely with the citation aboveupdated daily · data to Sep 30