Eseandre Mordi
⬤ xAI's Grok 4.1 Fast just claimed the No. 1 spot on OpenRouter's Trending Leaderboard, knocking Google's Gemini off the throne. The model's now processing 275 billion tokens and leading one of the platform's most watched rankings. Platform data shows token activity shooting up across OpenRouter, which points to growing demand for models that can handle serious workloads.
⬤ Here's where things stand right now: Grok 4.1 Fast sits at the top with that 275 billion token lead, while Google's Gemini 3 Pro Preview holds No. 2 with 129 billion tokens. Third place goes to LiquidAI's LFM2-8B-A1B model, which processed 2.63 billion tokens and saw a wild 7,865% usage spike. The growth charts show overall throughput climbing into the multi-trillion-token range, with Grok grabbing a bigger and bigger slice of that activity. The trend over recent weeks makes it pretty clear—users are shifting toward xAI's latest release.
⬤ OpenRouter's trending leaderboard tracks real-world usage based on billions of processed tokens flowing through apps, developer tools, and automation systems. Grok's jump to No. 1 tells us something interesting about what developers actually want right now: speed, consistency, and the ability to handle massive inference volumes. Gemini's still performing strong near the top, but this reshuffle shows how fast preferences can flip when a new model variant drops. And LiquidAI breaking into the top tier? That's another sign the competitive landscape is getting more diverse by the day.
⬤ The latest shift underscores just how intense the competition's getting among leading AI models as workloads scale up. Developers are leaning harder on models that can deliver sustained, high-throughput performance, and OpenRouter rankings are becoming an early signal of where adoption trends are headed across the broader AI ecosystem. Grok 4.1 Fast's rapid climb shows what happens when a model's capabilities line up exactly with what the market needs right now.
Eseandre Mordi
