Token-maxxing is dead, OpenRouter's token usage plateaus

OpenRouter's live rankings data shows token usage across its API has plateaued, with the headline framing the shift as the end of "token-maxxing." The OpenRouter data, licensed under CC BY 4.0, ranks models by tokens processed through the OpenRouter API by millions of developers, and the platform directs users to its Data API docs for citation formats and JSON access to the datasets.

Rankings data by OpenRouter is licensed under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Reuse and republish it with attribution. The Data API docs https://openrouter.ai/docs/cookbook/administration/data-api cover the citation format and JSON access to these datasets. Live LLM rankings by real-world usage. Models are ranked by tokens processed through the OpenRouter API by millions of developers. View all text models https://openrouter.ai/models?fmt=cards&output modalities=text Usage data through