GoKawiilOpenRouter data shows AI agents now consuming 5x more tokens than humans
Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman cited an Andreessen Horowitz chart of OpenRouter data showing AI agents used 7.3 trillion tokens versus 1.4 trillion for humans as of August, six months after agent usage overtook human usage. OpenRouter says over 85% of agent tokens come from cached prompts, and since February agent token usage has risen 14x compared with 2.8x growth in human usage.