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AI is becoming AI's biggest customer
AI is becoming AI's biggest customer as agentic token usage jumps 14x on OpenRouter
TL;DRAI agents now use more tokens than humans on OpenRouter, growing 14x faster.
Why it matters: AI-to-AI consumption patterns reshape LLM economics, pricing models, and which companies win the infrastructure race.
AI agents have consumed more tokens than humans on OpenRouter since February 6, 2025. Agentic usage has grown 14x since then, while human usage is up just 2.8x. Nearly 70 percent of agent token consumption comes from cheap cached prompts, though, so actual costs are rising far…
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