# Token Prices Keep Falling and Consumption Keeps Rising Faster Than the Cuts

OpenRouter data shows agentic token volume climbing from 0.51 trillion to 7.3 trillion since February, with Chinese open-source models now accounting for more than half of the routed traffic.

- Published: 2026-09-08T06:18:45.692Z
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The technology channel AI Post reported that token usage on the model router OpenRouter rose 25-fold in a year and doubled in a single month. Those two specific figures are not independently confirmed. The verified numbers still show the sa…

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