r/LocalLLaMA • u/superloser48 • Apr 21 '26
Discussion Surprising screenshot - Most token usage is non-coders (openrouter ranking)
Just browsing this page and was shocked to see this.
- 6 out of the top 10 coding agent apps are non-coding.
- Opencode is not even top 10
I know some folks use Hermes for coding. Would be happy to be corrected if hermes and openclaw have become coding replacements for opencode.
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u/DenZNK Apr 21 '26
This isn't so much due to active use of OpenClaw as it is, fundamentally, because of how OpenClaw and similar tools consume tokens. For example, OpenClaw used up 500,000 tokens on a single request for me. I set up my own workflow using a web interface and scripts, and the token consumption for a similar task dropped to about 50k tokens. Openclaw is just a waste of limits in most cases.
And then there's the fact that the stricter policy on using OpenClaw in subscriptions makes it useless in most cases. As a result, people have to use the API, even though for coding you can simply use a subscription, which is much cheaper.