- • Peter Walker (OpenRouter head of insights) posted data indicating Astra accounted for 19% of dollars spent across Anthropic and OpenAI models for Sept 7–13.
- • Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 had 16% of dollars; Luna and Sol each had about 10%.
- • Luna’s aggressive price cut earlier in July drove the token-volume lead despite Astra’s higher per-token prices.
- • Dollar share favors expensive, frontier-capability workloads (Astra); token share favors cost-sensitive, high-volume tasks (Luna).
- • OpenRouter figures reflect routed traffic only, not total direct API/subscription business for either lab.
- • The data doesn't prove which model completed more useful work—only where payments and volumes flowed on OpenRouter.
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