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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) | 2.67M requests | +48% | |
| 2 | GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst | openai | 1.36M requests | +8% |
| 3 | Nano Banana 2.1 | 949K requests | +58% | |
| 4 | GPT Image 2.5 Flare | openai | 828K requests | +1% |
| 5 | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | 709K requests | +0% | |
| 6 | Muse Image | meta | 647K requests | -23% |
| 7 | GPT Image 2 | openai | 546K requests | -6% |
| 8 | Seedream 5.0 Flash | bytedance-seed | 524K requests | +161% |
| 9 | Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | 432K requests | -8% | |
| 10 | Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) | 387K requests | -9% |
Usage data through
Summary of the image Market Share chart above. Share of image requests made on OpenRouter in the week beginning Oct 26, 2026, with the change in each author's requests against the week before it. Google leads at 47.5% 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 | 47.5% | +29% | |
| 2 | OpenAI | 28.3% | 0% |
| 3 | Meta | 8.6% | +29% |
| 4 | Bytedance Seed | 3.8% | +14% |
| 5 | Black Forest Labs | 3.5% | -15% |
| 6 | Recraft | 2.5% | +59% |
| 7 | SpaceXAI | 1.8% | +19% |
| 8 | Krea | 1.2% | |
| 9 | Qwen | 1.0% | +35% |
| All other authors | 1.8% | +59% |