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OpenRouter's latest ranking: Chinese products sweep top five in global LLM call volume
OpenRouter's latest weekly ranking of large-model API call volumes shows Chinese companies holding all top five spots, led by Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 with 10.5 trillion tokens in a week. Tencent's Hunyuan 3 ranked third with a week-over-week increase of more than 999%, the fastest growth on the list.
OpenRouter, the global multi-model aggregation platform, recently released its latest weekly ranking of AI large-model API call volumes, with the top five products all developed by Chinese companies — a sign that domestic Chinese models now lead in real-world usage.
Topping the chart is Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5, which recorded 10.5 trillion tokens of weekly call volume, up 12% week over week.
The second and fifth spots both belong to DeepSeek, whose two models form a high-and-low pairing that covers different developer needs; its flagship Pro version benchmarks against top overseas closed-source models on coding and complex agent tasks.
Third place went to Tencent's Hunyuan 3, which was officially open-sourced on July 6 and posted a week-over-week increase of more than 999% — the fastest-growing model on the list.
What these models have in common is that they climbed the chart quickly after very short release histories, reflecting rapid iteration and strong market uptake in the open ecosystem.
As a common aggregation gateway for developers worldwide, OpenRouter's call-volume ranking directly reflects how hot each model is in real production use.
Chinese products sweeping the top five signals that domestic models have built a cluster advantage in application deployment; the question now is whether they can keep expanding share in higher-value paid and complex-task scenarios.
Why it matters
The dominance of Chinese models in real-world API usage on a global aggregation platform is now firmly established, underscoring their cluster advantage in production deployment.
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