Comment by lm28469
3 days ago
> The near billion users OpenAI has
They're losing market share and the growth of active user plateaued. They captured all the normies who learned about llms on TV but these people will never spend a cent as you said.
They're not even on the top 10 most used llms on openrouter anymore: https://openrouter.ai/rankings
At the current pace anthropic will make more money than openai soon: https://epochai.substack.com/p/anthropic-could-surpass-opena...
https://menlovc.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2-llm_api_mar...
I’m not rooting for open AI but OpenRouter is a very self selecting group. Most API users of Anthropocic or OpenAi would just go through the normal API
I'm surprised how many of my technical team use free ChatGPT in their personal lives. The rest have Claude subscriptions. I'm the only one with ChatGPT and Claude subs and I'll be switching from Claude Pro to Ckaude Max and cancelling ChatGPT, since I only use it when I hit my Claude quota.