Open-Weight Models Now Move the Majority of Gateway Tokens

Vercel data shows open models crossed 56% of gateway token volume in August, a milestone for open-source AI in production — and a signal that the game is shifting past prompt-and-response.

Open-weight models reached 56% of gateway token volume in August, according to data surfaced by @panditdhamdhere citing Vercel. That is a threshold worth marking: for the first time, more than half the tokens flowing through this gateway are served by open models rather than closed frontier APIs. It is one data point from one gateway, not an industry census — but it is a directional signal that open weights have become a serious production choice, not just a research curiosity.

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