AI agents now consume more tokens than humans on OpenRouter
ai agent token usage on openrouter jumped 14x since february, surpassing human consumption. this signals a shift toward autonomous agents dominating compute demand.
data from openrouter analyst peter walker indicates that february 6, 2025, was likely the last day humans consumed more tokens than ai agents. agent usage has grown 14x since then to 7.3 trillion tokens, while human usage rose only 2.8x. although 70% of agent usage comes from low-cost cached prompts, the volume reflects agents working autonomously and spinning up additional processes. this trend suggests the primary revenue driver for llm providers is shifting from human chatbots to automated agent systems.