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Weekly token consumption on OpenRouter, a platform for developers, has surged more than 25,000 percent since January 2025, from 0.5 trillion to 126.2 trillion tokens. The spike is driven by reasoning models generating massive 'thinking' tokens, not necessarily a matching jump in actual usage or business value.
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