Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Vercel AI Gateway · 2026-09-13

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 September 2026

26 models carried measurable traffic on the latest archived day, totalling about — tokens across 10 labs. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads with 65.09% of tokens, +65.09pp 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.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
#ModelLabShare %30d Δ
1DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek
65.09
+65.09pp
2OtherOther
12.91
-14.29pp
3GPT 5.6 LunaOpenAI
4.23
+0.16pp
4GLM 5.3 FlashZ-AI
3.31
+3.31pp
5DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek
3.27
-5.26pp
6Step 3.7 FlashStepFun
2.91
-7.96pp
7Muse Spark 1.3 ContributorOther
2.27
+2.27pp
8Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle
2.05
+2.05pp
9Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic
1.67
-4.71pp
10Kimi K3Moonshot
1.29
-2.13pp
11Claude Opus 5Anthropic
1.01
-6.83pp
12DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek
0.00
-12.94pp
13Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic
0.00
-3.14pp
14DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek
0.00
-4.87pp
15Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic
0.00
-2.70pp
16GPT-5 nanoOpenAI
0.00
-8.75pp
17GLM 5.2Z-AI
0.00
-4.52pp
18GPT 5.6 SolOpenAI
0.00
-1.81pp
19Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic
0.00
-5.16pp
20Ling 3.0 FlashOther
0.00
-5.12pp
21MiniMax M3MiniMax
0.00
-0.91pp
22Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic
0.00
-2.73pp
23Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGoogle
0.00
-3.48pp
24Muse Spark 1.2 ContributorOther
0.00
-1.04pp
25Nemotron 3 UltraNvidia
0.00
-0.07pp
26DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek
0.00
+0.00pp
Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-09-13 · Source: tidelines.ai/vercel-ai-gateway-rankings

Vercel AI Gateway rankings FAQ

Which model is most used on the Vercel AI Gateway?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash from DeepSeek, with 65.09% of tokens routed through the Vercel AI Gateway on 2026-09-13.
What are the top models on the Vercel AI Gateway?
The current top three by measured token volume are DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Other, GPT 5.6 Luna, out of 26 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.