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Token Share by Source Type & Origin

How the balance between closed-source, Western open-source, and Chinese open-source AI models has shifted on OpenRouter — the largest neutral AI routing platform.

Chinese OSS RoW OSS Closed / Proprietary

Historical Token Share

% of all tokens routed through OpenRouter, by week — Jan 2024 to present (Jan–Oct 2024 estimated)

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Key releases — hover chart markers for details:
OSS share today
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of tokens on OpenRouter
Chinese OSS models
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available on OpenRouter
RoW OSS models
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available on OpenRouter
Closed models
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available on OpenRouter
Avg input price per million tokens — paid models only
Chinese OSS
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RoW OSS
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OpenAI
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Anthropic
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Google
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Other Closed
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Current Model Distribution

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total models

Average Input Price by Category

Per million tokens (live from OpenRouter, paid models only)

Key Insights
DeepSeek changed everything. The release of DeepSeek V3 and R1 in January 2025 drove Chinese OSS from ~5% to over 12% of token share within weeks — the fastest category shift in OpenRouter's history.
OSS crossed 30% for the first time in mid-2025. The combination of Kimi K2, Qwen 3 Coder, and the GPT OSS Family pushed combined OSS share above the 30% threshold — a level previously seen only briefly after DeepSeek R1.
Closed models remain dominant at ~65–70%. Despite the OSS surge, closed models — primarily OpenAI GPT-4 family and Anthropic Claude — retain the majority of routed tokens, driven by enterprise adoption and API reliability.
Chinese OSS models now outnumber Closed ones on OpenRouter. By count, Chinese OSS models represent the fastest-growing category on the platform, with DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and MiniMax all active in 2025.
Methodology

Historical data is sourced from OpenRouter's published "Token Share by Source Type and Origin" chart (openrouter.ai), covering weekly token share from November 2024 onwards. Data points reflect the percentage of all tokens routed through OpenRouter attributed to each category.

Current snapshot (model counts and pricing) is fetched live from the OpenRouter public API (/api/v1/models) at page load. Models are categorised by provider organisation:

  • Chinese OSS — DeepSeek, Qwen/Alibaba, Kimi/Moonshot, MiniMax, StepFun, Zhipu/GLM, ByteDance, Baidu, Yi and equivalents with open weights (HuggingFace ID present)
  • RoW OSS — Meta/Llama, Mistral, Google Gemma, Microsoft Phi, NVIDIA Nemotron, Cohere Command-R and equivalents with open weights
  • Closed — OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini Pro/Ultra, Amazon Titan and equivalents without open weights

Average pricing excludes free-tier variants (:free suffix) to avoid distorting the paid market comparison.

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