What a week! GLM-5, Minimax-2.5 and now Qwen-3.5 let’s see
What a week! GLM-5, Minimax-2.5 and now Qwen-3.5 let’s see


The real reason is LLMs are still using the same architecture and there is no breakthrough at the end of the day their intelligence will become so close to each other, when this happens they will have to decrease the prices to compete with open-weight models and even with these prices they don’t generate revenue so instead of just scaling they will have to focus on optimization and innovation


OpenRouter is basically the place for third-party AI stuff: tools, research, benchmarks…
Sure, it won’t tell you what regular users are doing, but it shows where professionals actually spend money. And since it’s pricey (seriously, once you’re used to free ChatGPT or Gemini, paying hurts :D), it reveals which models are actually worth it.


General ranking (weekly) (higlighted models are open-weight)
General ranking (weekly)
Wow 46% of tokens are now going through open-weight models thats amazing.
oh, no