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AI Provider Token Race

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

Week of Jul 14, 2025
142.6B tokens across all providers
01Google
83.5B
02Anthropic
36.7B
03OpenAI
2.9B
04DeepSeek
2.4B
05Mistral
684.5M
06Alibaba
169.8M
07MiniMax
10.6M
08NVIDIA
9.0M
MiniMaxAnthropicDeepSeekZ.aixAIStepFunAlibabaGoogleOpenAIPoolsideXiaomiInclusionAIMoonshotAINVIDIAMistralTencentByteDanceKwaipilotAArceeIInceptionGitHubNNebulaAAstronCCoreThink

What a year of model usage tells us

Signals calculated from 52 complete weeks of real Kilo developer token usage.

Jul 14, 2025 to Jul 6, 2026

MiniMax

Usage Champion

The most-used model lab across the full year, finishing 21.5% ahead of Anthropic.

11.50T
tokens across 52 weeks
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xAI

Longest Reign

Held the number one position for 13 consecutive weeks, the longest run of any lab.

13 consecutive weeks
13 total weeks at #1
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Anthropic

Most Consistent

No lab spent more weeks among the top three, while remaining in the top ten for 52 of 52 weeks.

35 weeks
ranked in the top 3
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StepFun

Breakout Lab

Weekly usage rose from 3.7B to 734.6B after first crossing 1B tokens on Feb 2, 2026.

199x growth
730.9B weekly tokens gained
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Top open-weight model labs by usage

Provider-level usage for the current lab-level open-weight comparison, ranked by tokens across the full period.

  1. MiniMax

    #1

    287.7B tokens in the latest complete week.

    11.50T
    52-week usage
    View models

  2. DeepSeek

    #2

    857.5B tokens in the latest complete week.

    7.75T
    52-week usage
    View models

  3. Z.ai

    #3

    88.3B tokens in the latest complete week.

    7.59T
    52-week usage
    View models
Also ranked#4Qwen4.85T#5Poolside3.67T#6MoonshotAI1.63T#7Mistral AI713.4B

About This Visualization

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
Jul 2025 – Jul 2026
Granularity
Weekly snapshots
Metric
Total tokens consumed
Breakout threshold
1B weekly tokens

How to read the race

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    Providers move up and down as their weekly usage changes relative to others.

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

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