AI hosting platform OpenRouter’s latest ranking shows high demand for Chinese open-source models following a series of new releases

Online AI hosting platform OpenRouter’s latest ranking reflected the increased international demand for Chinese open-source models on its site following a series of new releases.

A token is the fundamental unit of data input – including whole words, parts of words, characters or punctuation marks – that an AI model processes to generate output.

MiniMax, Moonshot and DeepSeek accounted for nearly two thirds of the total token usage among the top five models ranked this month, according to OpenRouter.

Source: News - South China Morning Post