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Chinese Models Take Four of OpenRouter's Top Five as MiniMax M3 Enters at No. 3

Media calculations based on OpenRouter data put DeepSeek V4 Flash, Tencent Hy3 Preview, MiniMax M3 and Xiaomi MiMo V2.5 in the top four for the week of June 1-7.

Published 2026-06-08

Verdict

The ranking is a strong signal of developer adoption and price-performance demand on OpenRouter, but it should not be interpreted as global market share across direct APIs, cloud platforms and consumer products.

Chinese AI models reportedly occupied four of the five most-used model positions on OpenRouter during the week of June 1-7, 2026. National Business Daily calculated that Chinese models processed 14.19 trillion tokens on the platform, up 27.49% week over week, while total OpenRouter traffic reached 36.1 trillion tokens. These figures describe activity routed through OpenRouter, not total worldwide model usage.

The reported top four

The media calculation shows Chinese coding and agent models driving most of the week's growth.

1. DeepSeek V4 Flash

3.69 trillion tokens, up 19% week over week, holding first place for a third consecutive week.

2. Tencent Hy3 Preview

2.94 trillion tokens, down 3% week over week, remaining in second place for a third week.

3. MiniMax M3

2.5 trillion tokens in its launch week, placing the new coding, 1M-context and multimodal model in the top three.

4. Xiaomi MiMo V2.5

2.19 trillion tokens, up 50% week over week.

What changed in the ranking

The report says Chinese-model usage on OpenRouter exceeded US-model usage for a sixth consecutive week. It also says Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.7 fell out of the top five after weekly token usage declined by 9% and 38%, respectively.

Price-performance is shaping traffic

OpenRouter users can switch models quickly, making token share sensitive to pricing, availability, latency and task fit.

Launch spikes need follow-up

MiniMax M3's first-week result is notable, but several more weeks are needed to distinguish sustained adoption from launch-driven testing.

How to read the numbers

OpenRouter describes its rankings as weekly model usage across its own platform. The 36.1-trillion-token total and country aggregates in the report are media calculations based on that dataset.

Sources

21st Century Business Herald republication of the National Business Daily reportOpenRouter AI model rankingsMiniMax M3 release

Next actions

  • - Track several more OpenRouter ranking weeks before treating launch-week traffic as durable model adoption.
  • - Benchmark the four Chinese models on the same coding and agent workload instead of selecting only by token share.