State of AI: An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai
AI
Issue #481
28 Dec 2025
OpenRouter has basically become the gateway for accessing LLM’s, and as such is able to reveal some fascinating data points on the actual state of AI. Which LLM’s are most popular, who uses them, what is the relationship between model size and usage volume? Includes a cheeky price comparison table too, which charitably calls the comparatively mega expensive OpenAI models as ‘Premium Specialists’ 🤣. Technical but you know what? These days that cannot be a deterrent for us - have a read.