DeepSeek
The most-used model lab across the full 69 weeks, finishing 67.8% ahead of StepFun.
38.52T
tokens across 69 weeks
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AI Provider Token Race
Watch how AI provider usage evolved week by week, from Jun 2025 – Oct 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
DeepSeekStepFunMiniMaxAnthropicInclusionAINVIDIAZ.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
0.0%
Change since Jun 30, 2025
-0.5 pts
Latest open-weight volume
11.24T
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 69 weeks of model usage tell us
Signals calculated from 69 complete weeks of real Kilo developer token usage.
Usage Champion
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xAI
Held the number one position for 22 consecutive weeks, the longest run of any lab.
22 consecutive weeks
22 total weeks at #1
Anthropic
No lab spent more weeks among the top three, while remaining in the top ten for 69 of 69 weeks.
48 weeks
ranked in the top 3
NVIDIA
Weekly usage rose from 50.1B to 1.89T after first crossing 1B tokens on Mar 9, 2026.
38x growth
1.84T weekly tokens gained
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
4.43T tokens in the latest complete week.
View models38.52T69-week usage - #2
StepFun
51.5B tokens in the latest complete week.
View models22.95T69-week usage - #3
MiniMax
2.93T tokens in the latest complete week.
View models18.78T69-week usage
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
Released Oct 17. Usage jumped from 2.47T to 4.43T tokens the following week.
View lab+80%+1.96T tokens - #2
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Released Sep 10. Usage jumped from 1.37T to 2.72T tokens the following week.
View lab+98%+1.34T tokens - #3
StepFun: Step 5 Preview
Released Oct 8. Usage jumped from 573.3B to 1.52T tokens the following week.
View lab+165%+947.2B tokens - #4
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Released Jul 31. Usage jumped from 942.6B to 1.81T tokens the following week.
View lab+92%+864.3B tokens
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 – Oct 2026
- Granularity
- Weekly snapshots
- Metric
- Total tokens consumed
How to read the race
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