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Person
Peter Walker
Peter Walker — Person. role: Head of Insights at OpenRouter
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- Head of Insights at OpenRouter
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Adoption measures
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average price paid dropped from $0.77 to $0.14 per million tokens
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OpenRouter volume grew from 0.5 to 164,000 billion tokens per week between January 2025 and September 2026
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agents overtake humans as the source of tokens on February 6, 2026; 131T vs 18T per week by late September
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top lab's share of tokens fell from 40% to 21%; leader changed five times in eight quarters
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AI-native startups: tokens ×18 and spend ×5.1; large organizations: ×5.1 and ×2.4
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cache rate of agentic traffic at 88% for models launched this quarter vs 55% in spring 2025
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cumulative Anthropic + OpenAI spend moved from about 80% Anthropic in early 2026 to near parity in September
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article The Current State of AI Tokenomics DOCUMENT high confidence stable Source ↗
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OpenRouter ORGANISATION high confidence evolving Source ↗
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Landed cost CONCEPT high confidence evolving Source ↗
Zero Data Retention CONCEPT high confidence evolving Source ↗
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FinOps METHODOLOGIE medium confidence evolving