OpenRouter app · rank #28Snapshot 2026-06-23
Nous Research API
118.8B
Tokens (30d)
0
Requests
$91K
Monthly cost
$0.77
Blended $/M tokens
Ranks in the 33th percentile by spend and 39th by raw tokens among the top 46 apps.
Primary driver
StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash is Nous Research API's top model at 36.8B — 31.0% of total token volume and 18.9% of monthly cost ($17K).
Top-20 model breakdown
Ranked by monthly cost. Prices from OpenRouter's live catalog. Blended $/M = price_in × 72% + price_out × 28%.
| # | Model | Vendor | Tokens | % of vol. | $/M in | $/M out | Blended $/M | Monthly cost | % of spend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 anthropic/claude-4.8-opus-20260528 | anthropic | 1.6B | 1.4% | $5.00 | $25.00 | $10.60 | $17K | 19.0% |
| 2 | StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash stepfun/step-3.7-flash-20260528 | stepfun | 36.8B | 31.0% | $0.20 | $1.15 | $0.47 | $17K | 18.9% |
| 3 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217 | anthropic | 2.5B | 2.1% | $3.00 | $15.00 | $6.36 | $16K | 17.7% |
| 4 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro xiaomi/mimo-v2.5-pro-20260422 | xiaomi | 20.1B | 16.9% | $0.43 | $0.87 | $0.56 | $11K | 12.3% |
| 5 | OpenAI: GPT-5.5 openai/gpt-5.5-20260423 | openai | 498.1M | 0.4% | $5.00 | $30.00 | $12.00 | $6K | 6.6% |
| 6 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 anthropic/claude-4.7-opus-20260416 | anthropic | 434.9M | 0.4% | $5.00 | $25.00 | $10.60 | $5K | 5.1% |
| 7 | Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash google/gemini-3.5-flash-20260519 | 909.2M | 0.8% | $1.50 | $9.00 | $3.60 | $3K | 3.6% | |
| 8 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-20260423 | deepseek | 27.8B | 23.4% | $0.09 | $0.18 | $0.12 | $3K | 3.5% |
| 9 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-20260423 | deepseek | 5.6B | 4.7% | $0.43 | $0.87 | $0.56 | $3K | 3.4% |
| 10 | MiniMax: MiniMax M3 minimax/minimax-m3-20260531 | minimax | 4.5B | 3.8% | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.55 | $2K | 2.7% |
| 11 | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 z-ai/glm-5.2-20260616 | z-ai | 1.3B | 1.1% | $0.95 | $3.00 | $1.52 | $2K | 2.2% |
| 12 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420 | moonshotai | 766.1M | 0.6% | $0.66 | $3.41 | $1.43 | $1K | 1.2% |
| 13 | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max qwen/qwen3.7-max-20260520 | qwen | 509.3M | 0.4% | $1.25 | $3.75 | $1.95 | $993 | 1.1% |
| 14 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro xiaomi/mimo-v2-pro-20260318 | xiaomi | 1.7B | 1.4% | $0.43 | $0.87 | $0.56 | $931 | 1.0% |
| 15 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus qwen/qwen3.6-plus-04-02 | qwen | 955.9M | 0.8% | $0.33 | $1.95 | $0.78 | $746 | 0.8% |
| 16 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 xiaomi/mimo-v2.5-20260422 | xiaomi | 2.4B | 2.0% | $0.14 | $0.28 | $0.18 | $434 | 0.5% |
| 17 | StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash stepfun/step-3.5-flash | stepfun | 2.6B | 2.2% | $0.09 | $0.30 | $0.15 | $382 | 0.4% |
| 18 | OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Nano openai/gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14 | openai | 415.9M | 0.4% | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.18 | $77 | 0.1% |
| 19 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b-20230311 | nvidia | 387.3M | 0.3% | $0.09 | $0.45 | $0.19 | $74 | 0.1% |
| 20 | Owl AlphaFREE openrouter/owl-alpha | openrouter | 7.0B | 5.9% | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | $0 | 0.0% |
Cross-references
- Full leaderboard: OpenRouter app leaderboard
- Inverted view: Which models AI agents actually use
- Related benchmarks: /agentic
- Source: openrouter.ai/apps/nous-research-api
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