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AI IntelligenceAug 23, 2026AI Intelligence
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AI agents have surpassed human users as the primary consumers of API tokens on OpenRouter, with agentic usage increasing 14-fold since February 2025.

This structural shift indicates that machine-to-machine orchestration is rapidly reshaping inference economics and cloud provider revenue models.

Data Cube AI EditorialSource: The Decoder
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AI agents have surpassed human users as the primary consumers of API tokens on OpenRouter, with agentic usage increasing 14-fold since February 2025. This structural shift indicates that machine-to-machine orchestration is rapidly reshaping inference economics and cloud provider revenue models.

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