DeepSeek enters the fight for token volume, Anthropic continues to dominate spend
Every month, 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. AI Gateway Last month, headlines about blown token budgets dominated tech news: its annual Claude Code budget shortly after Q1 and Amazon to curb unproductive tokenmaxxing. While runaway cost is a real problem, this month’s report shows
