The AI usage report · 2026-07-14
The AI model market, measured.
Trillions of tokens move through public AI gateways every day. Tidelines tracks which LLMs win them, what they cost, and how fast that changes.
Top 15 models
Each tile is a single model's share % over its recorded window.
▲ 16.31pp· 30d
▲ 6.33pp· 30d
▼ 2.44pp· 30d
▼ 5.20pp· 30d
▲ 5.07pp· 30d
▲ 3.04pp· 30d
▼ 0.65pp· 30d
▲ 1.89pp· 30d
▼ 3.47pp· 30d
▲ 1.43pp· 30d
▼ 1.02pp· 30d
▼ 0.32pp· 30d
▲ 0.46pp· 30d
▼ 0.06pp· 30d
▼ 0.81pp· 30d
Labs at a glance
Current share, 30-day change, and a mini sparkline for each of the top 8 labs.
The market, over time
100% stacked share of the top 8 models plus everyone else.
Tencent: Hy3 gained 16.3pp of OpenRouter share in the last 30 days, now at 17.3%.
Top mover · 30d
Tencent: Hy3 gained 16.3pp of OpenRouter token share in the last 30 days, now at 17.3%. Source: Tidelines, 2026-07-14.
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Top mover · 30d
+16.31pp
Tencent: Hy3
Now 17.3% of OpenRouter tokens
New entrant
1.0%
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
First appearance in the top 12 this quarter
Token Price Index
−12%
Quarter over quarter
Weighted output-token cost, top 20 models
Risers
- Tencent: Hy3Tencent+16.31pp↑6.26
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi+6.33pp↑6.66
- Z.ai: GLM 5.2Z-AI+5.07pp↓0.97
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 UltraNvidia+3.04pp↑3.41
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic+1.89pp↑0.05
Fallers
- MiniMax: MiniMax M3MiniMax-5.20pp↓2.31
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic-3.47pp↓1.66
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek-2.44pp↓1.50
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek-2.29pp↓0.23
- Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic-1.02pp↓0.38