OpenRouter says agents now account for 76% of its token use
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OpenRouter says agents now consume 76% of all tokens on its platform, about 600 trillion tokens in October.
The company's X post, published November 6, 2026, also says agentic API keys accounted for 8% of token use a year earlier. The figures come from OpenRouter itself and have not been independently verified.
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