OpenRouter shows 25,000% spike in weekly token consumption since Jan 2025
The Decoder reports that OpenRouter’s weekly token consumption rose from about 0.5 trillion tokens in January 2025 to roughly 126.2 trillion tokens, a >25,000% increase. The piece cautions this mostly reflects inflated token metrics — e.g., reasoning/agentic models generating large 'thinking' token volumes and GPT-5.6 Luna producing many tokens per prompt — rather than a commensurate jump in end-user adoption or business value; OpenAI’s Astra leads revenue and some Chinese models (Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek) show fast growth from a small base.