Kimi K2.6 Surpasses Claude Sonnet 4.6 on OpenRouter in One Week

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Kimi K2.6 from Moonshot AI has risen to number one on OpenRouter’s LLM leaderboard with 1.88 trillion tokens used, surpassing Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1.35T) and DeepSeek V3.2 (1.24T) just one week after its April 20 launch. This on-chain data reveals a 7,683% week-over-week surge in usage. Claude Opus 4.7 also experienced strong growth, nearly tripling its usage. The rapid adoption of Kimi K2.6 underscores strong interest in token launch news and new AI models.

ChainThink reports that, as of April 28, according to OpenRouter's LLM leaderboard, Moonshot AI's flagship model, Kimi K2.6, topped the weekly chart with 1.88 trillion tokens processed, marking a weekly surge of 7,683%.

The model was launched on OpenRouter on April 20 and, within one week, surpassed Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1.35T) and DeepSeek V3.2 (1.24T), which had long held the top two positions on the leaderboard.

Among the top ten in this ranking, Anthropic holds three positions: Claude Sonnet 4.6 ranks second at 1.35T, a 3% decline环比 from the previous period;

Claude Opus 4.7 ranks fourth at 1.17T, marking the second-largest growth model this week with usage nearly tripling; Claude Opus 4.6 ranks ninth at 662B, declining 42%环比.

Models such as Google Gemini 3 Flash Preview, Step 3.5 Flash by Jiepang, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super Free also showed significant gains.

The OpenRouter leaderboard ranks models based on their actual token consumption on the platform, reflecting developers' true usage preferences at the API level.

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