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AI Provider Token Race

Watch how AI provider usage evolved week by week, from Jun 2025 – Nov 2026. See the rise and fall of different providers as developers shift their preferences.

Week of Jun 30, 2025
59.8B tokens across all labs
01Google
32.6B
02Anthropic
26.4B
03OpenAI
407.9M
04DeepSeek
201.0M
05Mistral
64.9M
06Alibaba
29.6M
07MMeta
19.2M
08BBaidu
17.5M
09MoonshotAI
7.5M
10MMicrosoft
2.7M
Token usage across Kilo Code
DeepSeekStepFunMiniMaxNVIDIAInclusionAIAnthropicZ.aixAIOpenAIPoolsideAlibabaGoogleXiaomiMoonshotAITencentNNexAGIMeituanMistralByteDanceKwaipilotAArceeBBaiduMMetaMMorphMMicrosoftAAgerica
Open-weight adoption

How open models gained ground

Follow open-weight share over time, then see which labs supplied the usage behind each week.

Latest share
65.6%
Change since Jun 30, 2025
+65.1 pts
Latest open-weight volume
11.33T
Verified releasesQwen3 Coder 480B-A35B InstructJul 22GLM 5.2Jun 17Laguna S 2.1Jul 21Kimi K3Jul 27

Share of all token usage

Open-weight versus proprietary models

Open weight Proprietary Total volume

Open-weight usage by lab

Top 10 labs across the period; all remaining usage is retained as other

What 71 weeks of model usage tell us

Signals calculated from 71 complete weeks of real Kilo developer token usage.

Jun 30, 2025 to Nov 2, 2026

DeepSeek

Usage Champion

The most-used model lab across the full 71 weeks, finishing 113.4% ahead of StepFun.

49.13T
tokens across 71 weeks
View lab

xAI

Longest Reign

Held the number one position for 22 consecutive weeks, the longest run of any lab.

22 consecutive weeks
22 total weeks at #1
View lab

Anthropic

Most Consistent

No lab spent more weeks among the top three, while remaining in the top ten for 71 of 71 weeks.

48 weeks
ranked in the top 3
View lab

NVIDIA

Breakout Lab

Weekly usage rose from 50.1B to 3.29T after first crossing 1B tokens on Mar 9, 2026.

66x growth
3.24T weekly tokens gained
View lab

Top open-weight model labs by usage

Open-weight usage ranked by tokens across the full period, based on each model's licensing rather than its lab.

  1. DeepSeek

    #1

    5.56T tokens in the latest complete week.

    49.13T
    71-week usage
    View models
  2. StepFun

    #2

    36.7B tokens in the latest complete week.

    23.02T
    71-week usage
    View models
  3. MiniMax

    #3

    232.1B tokens in the latest complete week.

    19.31T
    71-week usage
    View models

Open-weight releases that drove adoption

64 releases showed >20% week-over-week growth. These are the ones that moved the needle most.

  1. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

    #1

    Released Oct 17. Usage jumped from 2.47T to 4.43T tokens the following week.

    +80%
    +1.96T tokens
    View lab
  2. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

    #2

    Released Sep 10. Usage jumped from 1.37T to 2.72T tokens the following week.

    +98%
    +1.34T tokens
    View lab
  3. StepFun: Step 5 Preview

    #3

    Released Oct 8. Usage jumped from 573.3B to 1.52T tokens the following week.

    +165%
    +947.2B tokens
    View lab
  4. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

    #4

    Released Jul 31. Usage jumped from 942.6B to 1.81T tokens the following week.

    +92%
    +864.3B tokens
    View lab

Real usage from real developers

This animation shows weekly token consumption by AI provider across all Kilo Code users. Each bar represents the total tokens processed by models from that provider during that week.

Time Range
Jun 2025 – Nov 2026
Granularity
Weekly snapshots
Metric
Total tokens consumed

How to read the race

  1. Watch the rankings

    Providers move up and down as their weekly usage changes relative to others; use the filters to compare how open-weight and proprietary model usage evolves over time.

  2. Compare bar lengths

    Bar length shows absolute token usage — longer bars mean more tokens consumed.

  3. Use the controls

    Play, pause, scrub through time, or adjust speed to explore at your own pace.

  4. Share the signals

    The insight cards summarize leadership, breakout growth, open-weight labs, and market concentration.