alt Hacker NewsOpenRouter rankings frustrate me, because they show the total number of tokens but they provide no indication of how many unique users a model has.
Which means if a surprise model tops the leaderboard one week we can never be sure if it was because a single whale user pushing billions of tokens a day switched to it, or if it represents a genuine community trend towards that model.
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svantana • yesterday at 9:22 AM
Also, while we're pitching new features to openrouter, I'd like to see a "$ spent" chart, which would remove all these huge freebie spikes. It looks like it would be pretty much dominated by claude.
senordevnyc • yesterday at 7:44 AM
Agreed. My little solo dev SaaS app’s production pipelines push almost two billion tokens a day.
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(openrouter co-founder here)
Yeah we should do something to indicate cardinality. I can share that there can often (I'm talking generally; not related to this model in particular) be e.g. a very large app that can be pushing a lot of volume. But in almost all cases that app has a large number of end users. Hypothetically, for instance, would Cursor be consider one user, or millions?
Will think about it! Thanks for the feedback.