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# DeepSeek’s Token Use on OpenRouter’s API Tops 4 Rivals Combined

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**Published:** 2026-10-08T01:53:23.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** deepseek, llm

## Summary

During the final seven days of September, DeepSeek's volume of AI requests on the OpenRouter API outperformed the combined throughput of Google, Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI\.

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