OpenRouter's Annual Token Throughput Exceeds 1 Quadrillion, Annual Consumption Hits $10 Billion

According to 1M AI News monitoring, the annual token throughput of OpenRouter, an AI model API aggregation platform, has exceeded 1 quadrillion (10^15), with weekly throughput reaching 20.47 trillion tokens. Deedy Das, a partner at Menlo Ventures and investor in OpenRouter, announced this data on X, estimating that token consumption routed through OpenRouter corresponds to an annual expenditure of about $10 billion at an average price of $1 per million tokens.

OpenRouter's usage chart shows that its weekly token throughput grew from about 2 trillion in March 2025 to over 20 trillion in March 2026, an increase of about 10 times in one year. As of the week ending March 16, the top models by usage are Hunter Alpha (500 billion tokens weekly), MiniMax M2.5 (448 billion), Step 3.5 Flash (337 billion), Claude Sonnet 4.6 (308 billion), DeepSeek V3.2 (301 billion), Claude Opus 4.6 (275 billion), and Gemini 3 Flash Preview (272 billion).

OpenRouter was founded by Alex Atallah, co-founder of OpenSea. In June 2025, it announced the completion of $40 million in funding (including seed and Series A rounds), with the Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and participated by Sequoia Capital.