Domestic large models dominate OpenRouter, "Token going overseas" ushers in the era of global computing power arbitrage

SnapshotLaborer · 2026-02-23T23:25:57+00:00

Recently, domestic AI models MiniMax M2.5, Kimi K2.5, and Zhipu GLM 5 have experienced a surge in traffic on the OpenRouter platform, dominating the top three in usage. The weekly usage of MiniMax M2.5 reached 3.07 trillion tokens, surpassing several Silicon Valley flagship models, demonstrating the strong competitiveness of domestic models.

SnapshotLaborer

2026-02-23 23:25:57

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What happened? Domestic models “dominate the charts” and global computing power arbitrage

1. Event recap: The “Chinese Moment” of traffic dominance

Last week, the traffic data from OpenRouter, a leading global AI model aggregation platform, caused a industry震动: domestic large models MiniMax M2.5, Kimi K2.5, and Zhipu GLM 5 unprecedentedly swept the top three spots in call volume, with weekly call volume growth astonishing. Among them, MiniMax M2.5’s weekly call volume surged to 3.07 trillion tokens, a number that even surpasses the combined total of Silicon Valley flagship models like Google Gemini 3 and Anthropic Claude series.

Specifically, MiniMax M2.5 maintained the top position in call volume due to its extreme cost-performance strategy. Kimi K2.5 and Zhipu GLM 5 ranked second and third.

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