Kimi K2.6 Tops OpenRouter LLM Rankings in First Week, Usage Surges 7,683%

Gate News message, April 28 — Kimi K2.6, the flagship model from Moonshot AI, reached the top of OpenRouter's weekly LLM rankings with 1.88 trillion tokens consumed, surging 7,683% week-over-week. The model, launched on OpenRouter on April 20, surpassed Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1.35T, -3%) and DeepSeek V3.2 (1.24T) within one week.

In the top ten, Anthropic claimed three positions: Claude Sonnet 4.6 at second (1.35T, -3%), Claude Opus 4.7 at fourth (1.17T, +180%), and Claude Opus 4.6 at ninth (662B, -42%). Opus 4.7 saw the second-largest growth this week, with usage nearly tripling. Google's Gemini 3 Flash Preview ranked fifth (1.03T, -11%), while Stepwise AI's Step 3.5 Flash (762B, +78%) and NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Super free (656B, +25%) also showed notable gains.

OpenRouter's rankings are based on actual token consumption across the platform, reflecting developers' real API usage preferences.