OpenRouter Users Sent 84% of Tokens to Non-Frontier Models in Aug. 10 Week

Developers using OpenRouter directed 84% of their token volume through non-state-of-the-art models during the week of Aug. 10, highlighting the role of lower-cost systems in workloads handled through the model-routing platform. Six models accounted for about 80% of OpenRouter volume while delivering roughly 77% of frontier-model performance. The group averaged about $0.50 per million tokens, compared with $20 per million tokens for Claude Fable 5, or 2.5% of the cost. “The six models users choose to generate the supermajority of those tokens deliver about 77% of the performance of the frontier,” venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz wrote.

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