Ask which AI model is best, and the answer changes before the ink dries. That's what happens in an industry where new models are released weekly. Every benchmark measures a different race, and every race crowns its own winner, but Vercel has a unique view of the industry through production workloads. AI Gateway serves tens of trillions of tokens across hundreds of models through real applications and agents. What we're seeing : Anthropic leads in spend despite a higher unit price, Google leads in volume OSS models are gaining traction, but there is no loyalty to specific labs OpenAI spend share is growing quickly after recent model updates High-volume workloads route across 30+ distinct models on average Agentic workloads carry 59% of all token volume (up 2x over 6 months) This report is built on data from seven months of production traffic from AI Gateway, with usage from over 200K+ unique teams.…