My one big problem with OpenRouter is that, as far as I can tell, they don't provide any indication of how many companies are using each model.
For all I know there are a couple of enormous whales on there who, should they decide to switch from one model to another, will instantly impact those overall ratings.
I'd love to have a bit more transparency about volume so I can tell if that's what is happening or not.
Right, that chart shows App usage based on the user-agent header but doesn't tell you if there is a single individual user of an app that skews the results.
I was skewing the Gemini starts with my Aider usage. Basically the only model in using with openrouter, until I recently started running qwen3-next locally.
2.5 is probably the best balance for tools like Aider.
For all I know there are a couple of enormous whales on there who, should they decide to switch from one model to another, will instantly impact those overall ratings.
I'd love to have a bit more transparency about volume so I can tell if that's what is happening or not.