# Vercel — DeepSeek enters the fight for token volume, Anthropic continues to dominate spend

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2026-06-08T04:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/ai-gateway-production-index-june-2026
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20706-deepseek-enters-the-fight-for-token-volume-anthropic-continues-to-dominate-spend
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway
- Models affected: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash, deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.0 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Qwen 3.6 Plus, Kimi K2.6
- Pricing: DeepSeek V4 Flash launched at $0.14 input / $0.28 output per million tokens

Vercel's AI Gateway data for May 2026 shows DeepSeek's token share jumped from under 1% to 17% in one month, while its spend share stayed near 1%. Anthropic's spend share grew from 61% to 65%, holding 70–80% of spend across high-stakes use cases. Total tokens grew 20% month-over-month and total spend grew 43%, with customers paying almost 20% more per token on average.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/ai-gateway-production-index-june-2026:

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

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