POPA ReconEstimating anthropic usage from openrouter data will lead to lots of statistical errors
Estimating anthropic usage from openrouter data will lead to lots of statistical errors At defillama when we ramped up usage we switched to buying direct from anthropic, and I imagine most companies do the same (for us it was 2x cheaper due to cache, and you get the exact same service) So when looking at openrouter data you’re taking a subset of the market which is smaller companies, apps that use a lot of different providers, apps with byok… and cutting the whole enterprise market which is what ant highlights in their s1 as their big growth driver Thus you are getting a biased slice of th…
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