OpenClaw is processing 822 billion tokens per day through OpenRouter, according to a Digital Applied analysis published April 4. That’s nearly three times the second-place tool: Kilo Code at 302 billion tokens per day. Claude Code follows at 166 billion, Cline at 97.2 billion, Hermes Agent at 64 billion, and Roo Code at 20.9 billion.
The numbers come from OpenRouter’s public usage rankings, a data source that independent analysts have used to track AI coding tool adoption. AI Focus published a separate analysis of the same OpenRouter programming data in late March, noting that 93.4% of tokens in the programming category are input tokens (context loading), not output (code generation), which makes per-token cost calculations significantly cheaper than most estimates assume.
Context on the Numbers
Digital Applied notes an important caveat: OpenClaw’s 822 billion figure represents aggregate platform consumption, not individual developer sessions. Because OpenClaw runs as a multi-agent platform with persistent sessions, a single enterprise team might run code review agents, testing agents, and documentation agents concurrently, each consuming tokens independently. Claude Code’s 166 billion represents individual developer sessions.
The comparison is closer to “platform throughput vs. tool throughput” than a direct per-developer adoption metric. Still, the scale of OpenClaw’s lead signals something about where enterprise spending on AI coding tools is concentrating. The same platform that Tencent built ClawPro on, that DeepMirror is using for robot orchestration, and that Anthropic’s CCO acknowledged customers want a rival to, is also dominating the developer token economy.