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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) | 2.72M requests | +29% | |
| 2 | GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst | openai | 1.31M requests | +2% |
| 3 | Nano Banana 2.1 | 985K requests | +32% | |
| 4 | GPT Image 2.5 Flare | openai | 854K requests | +3% |
| 5 | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | 715K requests | +4% | |
| 6 | Seedream 5.0 Flash | bytedance-seed | 651K requests | +207% |
| 7 | Muse Image | meta | 602K requests | -33% |
| 8 | GPT Image 2 | openai | 535K requests | -2% |
| 9 | Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | 425K requests | -8% | |
| 10 | Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) | 384K requests | -9% |
Usage data through
Summary of the image Market Share chart above. Share of image requests made on OpenRouter in the week beginning Nov 2, 2026, with the change in each author's requests against the week before it. Google leads at 48.7% 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 | 48.7% | +15% | |
| 2 | OpenAI | 28.9% | +15% |
| 3 | Bytedance Seed | 7.1% | +109% |
| 4 | Meta | 5.2% | -33% |
| 5 | Black Forest Labs | 4.3% | +38% |
| 6 | Recraft | 2.0% | -9% |
| 7 | SpaceXAI | 1.0% | -35% |
| 8 | Tencent | 0.9% | |
| 9 | Qwen | 0.7% | -18% |
| All other authors | 1.2% | -28% |