DeepSeek's commanding position in the OpenRouter market stems from its V4 Flash series delivering unmatched token throughput at ultra-low cost, with the 0731 variant alone processing over 17 trillion tokens in recent weekly rankings through efficient mixture-of-experts designs optimized for high-volume agentic and coding workloads. Chinese labs have captured the majority of platform traffic for months via rapid iteration and aggressive pricing that undercuts U.S. alternatives by 60-90 percent, driving developer migration on the aggregation platform. While this creates strong trader consensus, a surprise capacity constraint, major OpenAI or Anthropic discount campaign, or sudden Tencent/Z.ai surge could still fragment share before resolution.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · UpdatedDeepSeek 94.0%
xAI 4.7%
Z.ai 4.0%
Anthropic 4.0%

DeepSeek
94%

xAI
5%

Z.ai
4%

Anthropic
4%

Nvidia
4%

OpenAI
4%

Tencent
4%

Qwen
3%

MiniMax
1%

Xiaomi
1%

1%

Meta
1%
DeepSeek 94.0%
xAI 4.7%
Z.ai 4.0%
Anthropic 4.0%

DeepSeek
94%

xAI
5%

Z.ai
4%

Anthropic
4%

Nvidia
4%

OpenAI
4%

Tencent
4%

Qwen
3%

MiniMax
1%

Xiaomi
1%

1%

Meta
1%
A lab's market share is the percentage displayed for that lab in the Market Share chart, set to Percentage, for the week of August 31 to September 6, 2026. The "stealth" and "others" groupings are not labs; if either occupies the relevant rank, it will be skipped and the next ranked lab will be used.
This market will resolve according to the figures displayed for the week of August 31 to September 6, 2026 once the figures for the week of September 7, 2026 are first displayed. If the figures for the week of September 7, 2026 have not been displayed by 11:59 PM ET on September 11, 2026, this market will resolve according to the figures displayed for the week of August 31 to September 6, 2026 at that time. If no data is available for the week of August 31 to September 6, 2026 at that time, this market will resolve to "Other".
The AI labs will be primarily ranked by the percentage displayed in the Market Share chart, set to Percentage. If two or more labs are tied on market share in percentage terms, the lab with the larger token count displayed in the Absolute view of the chart will be ranked higher. If a tie still remains, the lab whose listed name comes first alphabetically will be ranked higher. This market will resolve to the AI lab ranked 1st after applying this ranking.
The resolution source for this market is https://openrouter.ai/rankings.
Market Opened: Sep 3, 2026, 8:08 PM ET
Resolution Source
https://openrouter.ai/rankingsResolver
0x69c47De9D...A lab's market share is the percentage displayed for that lab in the Market Share chart, set to Percentage, for the week of August 31 to September 6, 2026. The "stealth" and "others" groupings are not labs; if either occupies the relevant rank, it will be skipped and the next ranked lab will be used.
This market will resolve according to the figures displayed for the week of August 31 to September 6, 2026 once the figures for the week of September 7, 2026 are first displayed. If the figures for the week of September 7, 2026 have not been displayed by 11:59 PM ET on September 11, 2026, this market will resolve according to the figures displayed for the week of August 31 to September 6, 2026 at that time. If no data is available for the week of August 31 to September 6, 2026 at that time, this market will resolve to "Other".
The AI labs will be primarily ranked by the percentage displayed in the Market Share chart, set to Percentage. If two or more labs are tied on market share in percentage terms, the lab with the larger token count displayed in the Absolute view of the chart will be ranked higher. If a tie still remains, the lab whose listed name comes first alphabetically will be ranked higher. This market will resolve to the AI lab ranked 1st after applying this ranking.
The resolution source for this market is https://openrouter.ai/rankings.
Resolution Source
https://openrouter.ai/rankingsResolver
0x69c47De9D...DeepSeek's commanding position in the OpenRouter market stems from its V4 Flash series delivering unmatched token throughput at ultra-low cost, with the 0731 variant alone processing over 17 trillion tokens in recent weekly rankings through efficient mixture-of-experts designs optimized for high-volume agentic and coding workloads. Chinese labs have captured the majority of platform traffic for months via rapid iteration and aggressive pricing that undercuts U.S. alternatives by 60-90 percent, driving developer migration on the aggregation platform. While this creates strong trader consensus, a surprise capacity constraint, major OpenAI or Anthropic discount campaign, or sudden Tencent/Z.ai surge could still fragment share before resolution.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · Updated
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