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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) | 1.63M requests | +17% | |
| 2 | GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst | openai | 1.25M requests | +5% |
| 3 | Muse Image | meta | 841K requests | +22% |
| 4 | GPT Image 2.5 Flare | openai | 798K requests | +22% |
| 5 | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | 741K requests | +26% | |
| 6 | GPT Image 2 | openai | 613K requests | -8% |
| 7 | Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | 449K requests | -3% | |
| 8 | Nano Banana 2.1 | 448K requests | +41% | |
| 9 | Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) | 413K requests | +4% | |
| 10 | Recraft V4.1 Flash | recraft | 280K requests | +202% |
Usage data through
Summary of the image Market Share chart above. Share of image requests made on OpenRouter in the week beginning Oct 19, 2026, with the change in each author's requests against the week before it. Google leads at 43.3% 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 | 43.3% | +2% | |
| 2 | OpenAI | 33.2% | +8% |
| 3 | Meta | 7.8% | +7% |
| 4 | Black Forest Labs | 4.8% | +83% |
| 5 | Bytedance Seed | 3.9% | +5% |
| 6 | Recraft | 1.8% | +29% |
| 7 | SpaceXAI | 1.8% | 0% |
| 8 | Tencent | 1.1% | -2% |
| 9 | Qwen | 0.9% | |
| All other authors | 1.3% | -10% |