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title: "Spending on Anthropic AI Models Jumps 50% on OpenRouter in October"
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summary: "Spending on Anthropic's models grew by 50% in October on the OpenRouter platform. The Opus 5.5 model now represents 63% of all expenditure on Anthropic tools through the aggregator. Open-weight models led by China's DeepSeek V4.1 Flash currently dominate most coding and agent tasks by token volume."
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# Spending on Anthropic AI Models Jumps 50% on OpenRouter in October

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**Published:** 2026-11-11T20:23:26.000Z
**Category:** Tools
**Topics:** anthropic, llm, devtools

## Summary

Spending on Anthropic's models grew by 50% in October on the OpenRouter platform\. The Opus 5\.5 model now represents 63% of all expenditure on Anthropic tools through the aggregator\. Open\-weight models led by China's DeepSeek V4\.1 Flash currently dominate most coding and agent tasks by token volume\.

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- [Story source](<https://marketbrief.now/ai/spending-on-anthropic-ai-models-jumps-50percent-on-openrouter-in-october-7d5f8fda>)
- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/spending-on-anthropic-ai-models-jumps-50percent-on-openrouter-in-october-7d5f8fda>)