Data
What the traffic actually shows — most-used models, real latency, and the economics of running a router.
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What developers actually route through AnyRouter
The catalog has 170+ models across 28+ providers, but that's not what traffic looks like. A handful of models absorb almost all of the free-tier volume, model counts skew hard toward a few owner organizations, and most requests never mention a provider name at all — they arrive tagged by which coding agent sent them. Here's the shape of the catalog and the shape of what people actually call.
July 12, 2026
The most-used free models on AnyRouter so far
We pulled real usage from the gateway: which free models people actually route to. GLM-5.2 runs away with it, gpt-4o-mini is the workhorse behind it, and anyrouter/free quietly serves the long tail. Numbers below, straight from production.
July 11, 2026