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Rankings data by OpenRouter is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Reuse and republish it with attribution. The Data API docs cover the citation format and JSON access to these datasets.
Rankings data by OpenRouter is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Reuse and republish it with attribution. The Data API docs cover the citation format and JSON access to these datasets.
Live image generation rankings based on real usage data from millions of people using models through OpenRouter. View all image models Compare visual benchmarks
Rankings data by OpenRouter is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Reuse and republish it with attribution. The Data API docs cover the citation format and JSON access to these datasets.
| Rank | Model | Author | requests | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | 1.39M requests | -1% | |
| 2 | GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst | openai | 1.19M requests | +5% |
| 3 | Muse Image | meta | 687K requests | +7% |
| 4 | GPT Image 2 | openai | 665K requests | +23% |
| 5 | GPT Image 2.5 Flare | openai | 655K requests | +3% |
| 6 | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | 590K requests | -20% | |
| 7 | Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | 461K requests | -4% | |
| 8 | Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) | 396K requests | +10% | |
| 9 | Nano Banana 2.1 | 318K requests | +9% | |
| 10 | Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) | 294K requests | -5% |
Usage data through
Summary of the image Market Share chart above. Share of image requests made on OpenRouter in the week beginning Oct 12, 2026, with the change in each author's requests against the week before it. Google leads at 45.3% of the week's requests. Authors the chart groups as others are listed last, so the rows match the series the chart plots.
| Rank | Author | Share of requests | Change in requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 45.3% | +1% | |
| 2 | OpenAI | 33.1% | +7% |
| 3 | Meta | 7.8% | +3% |
| 4 | Bytedance Seed | 4.0% | +7% |
| 5 | Black Forest Labs | 2.8% | +2% |
| 6 | SpaceXAI | 1.9% | -3% |
| 7 | Recraft | 1.5% | -7% |
| 8 | Tencent | 1.2% | |
| 9 | Microsoft | 0.8% | -32% |
| All other authors | 1.6% | -7% |