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Codex Overtakes Portkey AI in OpenRouter Coding Usage as DeepSeek Cuts 72%

Usage (OpenRouter, 7d tokens) Codex passed Portkey AI, 131,706,713,167 vs 123,919,505,233 tokens (+6.3%) (evt 23448). Cline passed Command Code, 555,679,961,110 vs 494,862,139,813 (+12.3%) (evt 23447). Roo Code passed Peezy Gateway, 31,303,101,786 vs 29,482,742,510 (+6.2%) (evt 23449). Agent Zero passed GitLawb, 14,736,339,127 vs 13,255,194,226 (+11.2%) (evt 23450). OpenSquilla passed Qwen Code, 13,213,305,914 vs 12,514,067,328 (+5.6%) (evt 23451).

Prices Cuts: deepseek-v4-flash input $0.5→$0.14/MTok (-72%) (evt 23231); qwen3.6-27b $0.6→$0.289 (-51.8%) (evt 23191); qwen3-coder $0.38→$0.3 (-21.1%) (evt 23061); minimax-m2.7 $0.3→$0.25 (-16.7%) (evt 23020); minimax-m2 $0.3→$0.255 (-15%) (evt 23040); GLM-5.2-TEE $1.4→$1.25 (-10.7%) (evt 23225); kimi-k2.6 $0.684→$0.646 (-5.6%) (evt 23007); qwen3-next-80b $0.15→$0.1 (-33.3%) on both OpenRouter (evt 23050) and models.dev (evt 23177). Hikes: qwen3.7-max $1.25→$2.5 (+100%) (evt 23088); nemotron-3-ultra $0.5→$0.6, output +63.6% (evt 22990, evt 23164); gemma-4-31b $0.1→$0.14 (+40%) OpenRouter (evt 23016), $0.12→$0.14 models.dev (evt 23128); nemotron-3-super $0.08→$0.085 (+6.3%) (evt 23024, evt 23168).

Benchmarks Claude Opus 5 scored 78 on aa-coding-index (evt 24447), 60.7 on aa-intelligence-index (evt 24446), and 55.3 on aa-agentic-index (evt 24448), all marked top5.

Plans Codex removed Pro (5x)/(20x), Business, Enterprise; added Pro 20x at $200/month (evt 23437). Claude Code's Pro tier is no longer listed (was $200/yr) (evt 23435). Cursor's Hobby tier is no longer listed (was $0/yr) (evt 23439). Base44 shifted Elite/Pro/Builder/Starter from monthly to yearly listings ($1920/$960/$480/$192) (evt 23433). Devin Teams now listed at $80/mo (evt 23440).

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