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by minimaxir 265 days ago
Granted, due to OpenRouter's 5.5% surcharge, any enormous whales have a strong financial incentive to use the provider's API directly.

A "weekly active API Keys" faceted by models/app would be a useful data point to measure real-world popularity though.
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eli 264 days ago
They kinda have that already, no? https://openrouter.ai/apps?url=https%3A%2F%2Faider.chat%2F
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minimaxir 264 days ago
Aggregating by tokens causes the problem simonw mentions in that one poweruser can skew the chart too much.
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simonw 264 days ago
Right, that chart shows App usage based on the user-agent header but doesn't tell you if there is a single individual user of an app that skews the results.
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__mharrison__ 264 days ago
I was skewing the Gemini starts with my Aider usage. Basically the only model in using with openrouter, until I recently started running qwen3-next locally.

2.5 is probably the best balance for tools like Aider.

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