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OpenRouter has released platform usage data for October 19 to 25. According to Yicai, during that week DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 recorded 33.6 trillion tokens in weekly usage, up 801% week-over-week; models under DeepSeek have topped the platform's weekly ranking for three consecutive weeks, and Chinese models swept the top five. Global total usage for the same period was 188 trillion tokens, with Chinese models accounting for 93.54 trillion tokens in weekly usage, exceeding the United States for 26 consecutive weeks. On the ranking by share of spending by task, the top share in the classification task category remains Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 at 10.3%, followed by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro; the only Chinese model on the list is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. There are currently no further developments.
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Oct 27
Electronic Technology Application
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 Tops OpenRouter's Weekly Call Ranking with 33.6 Trillion Tokens
OpenRouter's weekly ranking for October 19–25 shows that V4.1-Flash-1017, updated by DeepSeek on October 17, ranked first with 33.6 trillion tokens in weekly calls, up 801% week-over-week. This version continues the asymmetric MoE architecture with 552B total parameters, 8B activated for input, and 16B activated for output, with a focus on optimizing code, automated agents, and vision tasks; the older V4.1 Flash recorded 18 trillion tokens in weekly calls, down 45% week-over-week. Last week's global total call volume was 188 trillion tokens, of which Chinese models accounted for 93.54 trillion tokens, marking the twenty-sixth consecutive week above the 22.47 trillion tokens of U.S. models.
Oct 26
Yicai
DeepSeek Tops OpenRouter Call Volume Ranking for Three Consecutive Weeks, but High-Value Task Spending Still Dominated by Overseas Models
OpenRouter data for October 19–25 shows that DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 reached 33.6 trillion tokens in weekly call volume, up 801% week-over-week. DeepSeek's models have ranked first on the platform's weekly chart for three consecutive weeks, with Chinese models sweeping the top five. Global total call volume for the same period was 188 trillion tokens, with Chinese models at 93.54 trillion tokens in weekly call volume, exceeding the United States for 26 consecutive weeks. However, on the ranking by share of task spending, the top share in the classification task category still belongs to Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 at 10.3%, followed by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro; the only Chinese model on the list is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.