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Hy4 preview — 19737NEW Listen Labs walks away from $1.5B funding round amid Salesforce acquisition talks DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 — 17163NEW Suno releases its first AI music model built with record industry support GPT-5.6 Luna — 12894NEW Apple CEO Ternus: iPhone, not new hardware, is the best AI device GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) — 12332NEW ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images MiniMax M3 — 4879NEW Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone MiMo V2.5 — 4189 Hy4 preview — 19737NEW Listen Labs walks away from $1.5B funding round amid Salesforce acquisition talks DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 — 17163NEW Suno releases its first AI music model built with record industry support GPT-5.6 Luna — 12894NEW Apple CEO Ternus: iPhone, not new hardware, is the best AI device GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) — 12332NEW ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images MiniMax M3 — 4879NEW Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone MiMo V2.5 — 4189

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Ranked by real usage. Token volume routed per model on OpenRouter over the last 7 days, with pricing and context window.

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#	Model	Category	Tokens/wk	Pricing (in/out)	Context	Trend
1	Hy4 preview tencent	Open Source	19.74T	$0.83/$2.5	1M	—
2	DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek	Open Source	17.16T	$0.05/$0.16	1.3M	—
3	GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI	Proprietary	12.89T	$0.2/$1.2	1.1M	—
4	GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) Z.ai	Open Source	12.33T	$0.08/$0.25	1M	—
5	MiniMax M3 MiniMax	Open Source	4.88T	$0.23/$0.96	1M	—
6	MiMo-V2.5 Xiaomi	Open Source	4.19T	$0.12/$0.24	1.1M	—
7	Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) Nvidia	Open Source	3.69T	Free	1M	—
8	Hy3 tencent	Open Source	3.56T	$0.13/$0.53	262K	—
9	GLM 5.3 (batch) Z.ai	Open Source	3.27T	$0.7/$2.2	1M	—
10	Gemini 3.8 Flash Google	Proprietary	2.51T	$0.75/$3.75	1M	—
11	GLM 5.2 Z.ai	Open Source	2.41T	$0.49/$1.56	1M	9
12	DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (batch) DeepSeek	Open Source	2.17T	$0.66/$1.98	1M	—

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