Why it matters
OpenRouter meters real production traffic, so its board reads more like a spend report than a benchmark. DeepSeek alone now takes 16.3% of token volume, ahead of Google, Anthropic and OpenAI, while OpenAI has slipped to fourth by company volume.
Tokenmaxxing read
Tencent's Hy3 Preview lists at $0.063 per million input tokens, and that spread is the story: routing defaults move long before the benchmark argument is settled. Amodei's rebuttal — distilled, benchmark-tuned rivals — is about capability, not about what teams default to.
Source takeaway
Claude is the exception inside its own downturn: Opus 4.7 still holds third place and the top closed-source slot, even as six Chinese open-weight models fill out the top ten and Ramp's June report shows DeepSeek leading paid foundational-LLM spend.
