@rohanpaul_ai: OpenRouter went from roughly 10B tokens/week in Jan 2024, to now >90T/week in Aug 2026, a 9,000x increase. If this rate…
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The tweet highlights OpenRouter's 9,000x increase in token usage from January 2024 to August 2026, driven by agentic workloads that consume significantly more tokens than human interactions.
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OpenRouter went from roughly 10B tokens/week in Jan 2024, to now >90T/week in Aug 2026, a 9,000x increase.
If this rate continues, wondering where we will be in the next 2.5 years.
And agentic workflow is just about starting now. Agents can burn extraordinary token volumes
OpenRouter says agentic workloads overtook human token usage around February, while an agentic request consumes about 15× as many tokens as normal human usage.
Chart from Menlo Ventures
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