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OpenRouter operates one of the largest AI inference platforms in the world, generating an authoritative empirical dataset relied upon by government agencies, academic researchers, major industry analysts, and global media outlets.
NIST / CAISI
U.S. Government
Used OpenRouter request counts as an empirical adoption metric to evaluate AI model diffusion, citing 97.5 million API requests within four weeks.
MIT / Boston University
Academic Research
Economists constructed a model-day panel dataset from OpenRouter data to study LLM demand, substitution patterns, and multi-homing behavior.
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State of AI 2025
The most comprehensive empirical study of LLM usage to date, analyzing 100 trillion tokens of anonymized request-level metadata across hundreds of models.
Brookings Institution
Policy Research
Cited the State of AI study in a policy report on AI sovereignty, bringing empirical usage findings into government policy research.
Reuters
Journalism
Used OpenRouter-derived market share statistics to contextualize competitive dynamics among LLM providers in mainstream financial and tech analysis.
Cisco
Enterprise Industry
Cited OpenRouter rankings as market telemetry in a white paper on AI infrastructure and inference-era networking needs.
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An empirical 100T+ token study of LLM usage, model trends, and developer insights across OpenRouter.
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