DeepSeek
The most-used model lab across the full 61 weeks, finishing 14.9% ahead of StepFun.
17.56T
tokens across 61 weeks
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AI Provider Token Race
Watch how AI provider usage evolved week by week, from Jun 2025 – Aug 2026. See the rise and fall of different providers as developers shift their preferences.
Week of Jun 30, 2025
14.0B tokens across all labs
01Google
8.8B
02Anthropic
4.7B
03DeepSeek
201.0M
04OpenAI
121.8M
05Mistral
64.7M
06Alibaba
28.5M
07MMeta
15.8M
08BBaidu
9.5M
09MoonshotAI
7.5M
10NNousResearch
3.9M
Token usage across Kilo Code
DeepSeekStepFunMiniMaxAnthropicZ.aiOpenAIInclusionAIxAIPoolsideAlibabaGoogleXiaomiNVIDIATencentMoonshotAIMistralMMeituanNNexAGIByteDanceKwaipilotAArceeMMetaMMorphPPerplexityAAmazonNNousResearchBBaidu
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
70.7%
Change since Jun 30, 2025
+68.4 pts
Latest open-weight volume
6.90T
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 61 weeks of model usage tell us
Signals calculated from 61 complete weeks of real Kilo developer token usage.
Usage Champion
xAI
Held the number one position for 17 consecutive weeks, the longest run of any lab.
17 consecutive weeks
17 total weeks at #1
Anthropic
No lab spent more weeks among the top three, while remaining in the top ten for 61 of 61 weeks.
39 weeks
ranked in the top 3
StepFun
Weekly usage rose from 3.6B to 1.61T after first crossing 1B tokens on Feb 2, 2026.
443x growth
1.61T 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
1.53T tokens in the latest complete week.
17.56T61-week usage - #2
StepFun
1.61T tokens in the latest complete week.
15.28T61-week usage - #3
MiniMax
565.7B tokens in the latest complete week.
13.70T61-week usage
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 – Aug 2026
- Granularity
- Weekly snapshots
- Metric
- Total tokens consumed
How to read the race
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.
Compare bar lengths
Bar length shows absolute token usage — longer bars mean more tokens consumed.
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