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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) | 1.95M requests | +34% | |
| 2 | GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst | openai | 1.29M requests | +6% |
| 3 | Muse Image | meta | 891K requests | +30% |
| 4 | GPT Image 2.5 Flare | openai | 818K requests | +14% |
| 5 | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | 690K requests | +7% | |
| 6 | Nano Banana 2.1 | 680K requests | +108% | |
| 7 | GPT Image 2 | openai | 570K requests | -16% |
| 8 | Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | 468K requests | +6% | |
| 9 | Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) | 429K requests | +7% | |
| 10 | Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) | 269K requests | +13% |
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% |