DeepSeek's New Model Tops Global Weekly API Calls, Surging 801% Month-Over-Month

on October 26, on OpenRouter's latest weekly global ranking of AI large model API calls (October 19 to 25), the top spot went to DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 version updated on October 17. The model recorded a single-week call volume of 33.6 trillion tokens, reflecting a week-over-week increase of 801%, making it the most explosive model over the past week and the core driver behind the overall growth of domestic models. Taking second place is DeepSeek's older V4.1 Flash version, which officially launched on September 10. This week's call volume for the model reached 18 trillion tokens, a week-over-week drop of 45%, indicating that developers are quickly migrating to the new version. (Jinshi)