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OpenRouter October data: agents consume 76% of tokens, about 600T

OpenRouterUpdated Nov 7 04:47

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OpenRouter released October data: agents consumed 76% of the platform's tokens, about 600T, while a year ago agent API keys accounted for only 8%. Total platform token volume in October was 790T, a 25-fold increase from January; the median provider cache hit rate for agent traffic rose from 76.1% in June to over 90% in October. The share of open-weight models in paid tokens once fell to 52%, then rebounded to over 70% two weeks later, mainly from DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.

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OpenRouter uses its own platform data to show that the share of agent traffic rose from 8% to 76% within a year, which can be used to observe changes in the call structure.

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2/ Agents now consume 76% of all tokens on OpenRouter, about 600T in October. A year ago, agentic API keys took 8%. https://t.co/mysnaRZXrA

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