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DeepSeek V4 doubled its OpenRouter token share, and the bill it displaced was ~130x bigger
OpenRouter says DeepSeek went from 9% to 18% of tokens in six months, with agent loops doing most of the work. Token share and spend share are not the same league table.
Publishers:openrouter.ai
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption74
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives70