Competition is a discovery procedure.
— Friedrich Hayek And developers are discovering the value of open models. OpenRouter offers a useful view into the model market.1 It is not the whole AI economy. But it is close to the API frontier, where developers can switch models quickly, compare price-performance daily, & route each request to the best available option.
Since 2025, open models have grown sharply on OpenRouter. In the latest model-leve…
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