# OpenRouter reports 12-fold growth in MAI Transcribe 2 requests

> Original title: MAI Transcribe 2 requests are up 12× since launch on OpenRouter.

- Source: OpenRouter
- Published: 2026-11-11T17:30:07.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/vg3xffqk58ke75tb98xrxy0tr
- Original: https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2120569774124200265

## Summary

OpenRouter says MAI Transcribe 2 requests rose 12 times since launch, reaching 8.5 million transcriptions last week from 0.7 million in its first week in September. OpenRouter also says requests across the whole speech-to-text category grew 3 times over the same period.

## Post

MAI Transcribe 2 requests are up 12× since launch on OpenRouter.

8.5M transcriptions last week, up from 0.7M in its first week in Sept.

The whole speech-to-text category saw requests grew 3x over the same timeframe.

More: https://openrouter.ai/rankings/transcription

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