We usually rank coding agents by GitHub stars, which mostly measures hype and how long a project has existed. OpenRouter has a different leaderboard: cloud coding agents by real tokens routed through them. It’s a usage signal, not a popularity one. A few things that stood out to me scrolling it: the leaders are agentic products (QA agents, game-builders, multi-agent arenas), not the coding CLIs everyone talks about Roo Code and goose show up strong, which tracks and the one that surprised me: a decentralized, git-native agent called gitlawb is token throughput a better signal than stars for “which agents people actually use,” or is it just as gameable (a few heavy automated users can inflate it)? For those of you routing through OpenRouter, do you trust that leaderboard? PS Openrouter was bought by Stripe for $7.5B https://openrouter.ai/apps/category/coding/cloud-agent?period=month submitted by /u/amu4biz
Originally posted by u/amu4biz on r/ArtificialInteligence