AI Gateway Production Index — October 2026

Every month, AI Gateway routes tens of trillions of tokens between production applications and AI labs. That traffic gives us a view of what AI usage actually looks like in today's enterprise, and we publish it here monthly. See the Production Index reports from July , August , and September .

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Open-weight models now process more than seven in ten gateway tokens and account for nearly one in four dollars. Their share of spend has more than quadrupled since June.

September’s gateway spend was about 13 times December’s, while the average price per token was 47% lower.…