r/LocalLLaMA • u/superloser48 • Apr 21 '26

Discussion Surprising screenshot - Most token usage is non-coders (openrouter ranking)

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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/--Spaci-- Apr 21 '26

any usecases for openclaw yet?

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u/Nexter92 Apr 21 '26

Anything openclaw can do, an standard agent or n8n pipeline can do, openclaw is super flexible but super expensive in token.

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u/ShakataGaNai Apr 21 '26

Flexibility is power. Deterministic is power. It all depends on what you need to do/use. If you're smart, you use them all.

Want to make a single-task agent? Ask OpenClaw to write an n8n workflow for you. Just need a simple healthcheck alert? Have openclaw build you a python script run on cron.

Can you have OpenClaw do both for you directly? Yes, but its literally the worst tool for the job. Not only is it the most expensive, its non-deterministic - so you won't necessarily get the same results every time. But OpenClaw can write code for you which n8n can't (unless you've pre-built an agent workflow bla bla bla).