Vercel AI Gateway · 2026-10-09
Vercel AI Gateway rankings
Models on the Vercel AI Gateway, ranked by the tokens they actually processed. A second, independent read on demand alongside OpenRouter.
What Vercel gateway traffic shows in October 2026
24 models carried measurable traffic on the latest archived day, totalling about — tokens across 10 labs. Other leads with 30.78% of tokens, +4.96pp over 30 days.
The "OR share" column shows each model's share on OpenRouter for the same day. Large gaps are the interesting part: a model that dominates one gateway and barely registers on the other is being pulled by a specific developer population rather than by broad demand.
Top models on the Vercel AI Gateway
Ranked by share of gateway tokens on the latest archived day.
| # | Model | Lab | Share % | 30d Δ | OR share % | $/M out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Other | Other | 30.78 | +4.96pp | — | — |
| 2 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | DeepSeek | 30.72 | +30.72pp | — | $1.20 |
| 3 | GLM 5.3 Flash | Z-AI | 8.12 | +1.03pp | — | $0.50 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 5.5 | Anthropic | 6.73 | +6.73pp | — | $20.00 |
| 5 | GPT-6 Luna | OpenAI | 6.59 | +6.59pp | — | $0.50 |
| 6 | Kimi K3 | Moonshot | 4.79 | +3.14pp | — | $12.00 |
| 7 | GPT-6.1 Sol | OpenAI | 3.07 | +3.07pp | — | $10.00 |
| 8 | GPT 5.6 Luna | OpenAI | 2.96 | -4.29pp | — | $1.20 |
| 9 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | DeepSeek | 2.29 | -6.74pp | — | $1.28 |
| 10 | Gemini 3.8 Flash | 2.16 | -1.19pp | — | $3.75 | |
| 11 | GLM 5.3 | Z-AI | 1.79 | +0.87pp | — | $8.80 |
| 12 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | DeepSeek | 0.00 | -26.72pp | — | $1.20 |
| 13 | Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | 0.00 | -3.67pp | — | $25.00 |
| 14 | Step 3.7 Flash | StepFun | 0.00 | -7.87pp | — | $1.15 |
| 15 | GLM 5.2 | Z-AI | 0.00 | -0.94pp | — | $8.00 |
| 16 | GPT 5.6 Sol | OpenAI | 0.00 | -2.94pp | — | $10.00 |
| 17 | Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | 0.00 | -3.15pp | — | $10.00 |
| 18 | Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | 0.00 | -2.18pp | — | $20.00 |
| 19 | MiniMax M3 | MiniMax | 0.00 | -1.13pp | — | $1.20 |
| 20 | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | DeepSeek | 0.00 | -2.28pp | — | $0.65 |
| 21 | Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor | Other | 0.00 | -4.27pp | — | $0.20 |
| 22 | Grok 4.5 | xAI | 0.00 | -0.09pp | — | $6.00 |
| 23 | Grok 4.6 | xAI | 0.00 | -0.21pp | — | $6.00 |
| 24 | Grok 4.7 | xAI | 0.00 | +0.00pp | — | $6.00 |
Vercel AI Gateway rankings FAQ
- Which model is most used on the Vercel AI Gateway?
- Other from Other, with 30.78% of tokens routed through the Vercel AI Gateway on 2026-10-09.
- What are the top models on the Vercel AI Gateway?
- The current top three by measured token volume are Other, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, out of 24 models with traffic.
- How do Vercel AI Gateway rankings differ from OpenRouter?
- The two gateways serve different developer populations, so their mixes diverge — Vercel traffic skews toward frontend and framework-adjacent apps, OpenRouter toward a broader mix including chat frontends and open-weight experimentation. Comparing them is the fastest way to tell a genuine model trend from a single-gateway artefact.
- Where does the data come from?
- Vercel publishes model usage for its AI Gateway. Tidelines archives that snapshot once a day, so 7-day and 30-day changes compare two real archived days rather than estimates.