AI Gateway Production Index — June 2026

Every month, AI Gateway routes tens of trillions of tokens between production applications and AI labs, giving us visibility into what AI usage actually looks like, separate from leaderboards and benchmarks. We publish the data monthly in the AI Gateway production index.

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The July index reports on AI Gateway data collected in May 2026.

Total AI Gateway tokens grew +20% MoM ; total spend grew +43% MoM . Customers paid almost 20% more per token on average than in April.

DeepSeek’s share of tokens jumped from under 1% to 17% in a single month, while its share of spend stayed near 1%.

Anthropic’s share of spend grew from 61% to 65% in May, holding 70–80% of spend across every high-stakes use case (AI app generation, back office agents, and coding agents).

Cost-consciousness meant smarter routing between low-cost and frontier models.…