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Who Burns the Tokens: OpenRouter Apps

Models are the supply side; apps are the demand. This maps the ~43 ranked apps to the models and vendors they run on — revealing how concentrated each vendor's volume is on a handful of agent apps.

snapshot 2026-11-09 · top-20 model breakdown per app · generated 2026-11-09 · ← dashboard · market memo

Token flow — apps → vendors → origin

Where the demand actually goes: each top app's tokens flowing to the vendors it runs on, then to the model's country of origin. Ribbon width = tokens; red = Chinese-origin, blue = Western.

Hermes AgentClaude CodeKilo CodepiOpenClawCodexClinePortkey AIOpenHandsISEKAI ZEROdeepseekanthropicz-aiOther vendorsnvidiastepfunopenaiminimaxxiaomiChinaWestOther

Token flow — apps → the actual models

The same demand, resolved to the concrete models each app routes to (top 9 models; the rest grouped as "Other models").

Hermes AgentClaude CodeKilo CodepiOpenClawCodexClinePortkey AIOpenHandsISEKAI ZEROOther modelsDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batGLM 5.3 Flash (batch)Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)Step 5 PreviewMiniMax M3.1 FlashNemotron 3 Ultra (free)GPT-6 Luna (batch)Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (f

The numbers behind the flow

Top apps by token volume (T)
Demand mix per app — 🔴 Chinese · 🔵 Western · ⚪ other (% of the app's tokens)
Vendor concentration — top-app share of each vendor's app volume (red = ≥40% concentration risk)

1 · App leaderboard — who consumes the most

apptokensshareruns on (vendor mix)
Hermes Agent45.2T25.1%deepseek 51% · z-ai 10% · stepfun 8%
Claude Code43.9T24.4%anthropic 46% · deepseek 26% · z-ai 19%
Kilo Code22.4T12.4%nvidia 46% · minimax 15% · stepfun 10%
pi16.2T9.0%deepseek 62% · z-ai 14% · anthropic 7%
OpenClaw12.3T6.8%stepfun 54% · deepseek 21% · minimax 10%
Codex11.9T6.6%openai 69% · deepseek 21% · z-ai 4%
Cline7.6T4.2%xiaomi 28% · meta 15% · stepfun 14%
Portkey AI5.0T2.8%z-ai 62% · typesafe 18% · deepseek 11%
OpenHands2.8T1.5%deepseek 74% · z-ai 19% · moonshotai 3%
ISEKAI ZERO2.3T1.3%xiaomi 49% · deepseek 22% · z-ai 19%
Lemonade1.5T0.8%z-ai 77% · openai 9% · inclusionai 7%
LangChain1.3T0.7%deepseek 55% · openai 13% · z-ai 9%
Descript1.2T0.7%anthropic 67% · google 18% · openai 13%
Nous Research API1.1T0.6%deepseek 45% · poolside 14% · stepfun 9%
Zed Editor889.5B0.5%deepseek 50% · z-ai 18% · openai 9%
Janitor AI764.4B0.4%deepseek 55% · nvidia 19% · z-ai 18%
Craft571.2B0.3%z-ai 35% · openai 26% · meta 13%
GDevelop557.0B0.3%meta 60% · openai 18% · deepseek 12%
Mira524.4B0.3%minimax 83% · qwen 5% · openai 4%
Open WebUI494.0B0.3%deepseek 45% · z-ai 17% · openai 11%
SillyTavern334.7B0.2%deepseek 34% · z-ai 23% · google 22%
extra.email222.2B0.1%z-ai 61% · typesafe 35% · deepseek 3%
Roo Code192.1B0.1%deepseek 60% · z-ai 10% · openai 7%
nanobot173.8B0.1%deepseek 69% · xiaomi 9% · openai 8%
Qwen Code116.7B0.1%deepseek 51% · qwen 22% · z-ai 9%

Share = % of tokens across all tracked apps. "Runs on" = the app's top vendors by token volume.

2 · Vendor demand concentration — who depends on whom

vendortokens (via apps)top-app conc.top driving apps
deepseek57.4T40%Hermes Agent 40% · Claude Code 20% · pi 18%
anthropic25.8T77%Claude Code 77% · Hermes Agent 10% · pi 5%
z-ai24.1T35%Claude Code 35% · Hermes Agent 19% · Portkey AI 13%
nvidia13.9T75%Kilo Code 75% · Hermes Agent 13% · Cline 6%
stepfun13.6T48%OpenClaw 48% · Hermes Agent 26% · Kilo Code 16%
openai12.4T66%Codex 66% · Hermes Agent 14% · pi 8%
minimax10.0T34%Kilo Code 34% · Hermes Agent 31% · OpenClaw 12%
xiaomi5.2T40%Cline 40% · ISEKAI ZERO 22% · Hermes Agent 21%
upstage4.1T73%Hermes Agent 73% · Cline 24% · Nous Research API 2%
poolside2.6T57%Kilo Code 57% · Hermes Agent 31% · Cline 6%

Top-app conc. = share of the vendor's app-driven volume from its single biggest app — high (≥40%) = concentration risk, low (<20%) = broad, durable demand.

3 · Why it matters