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  "slug": "ai-gateway-production-index-july-2026-13d6gio",
  "url": "https://feed7.dev/p/ai-gateway-production-index-july-2026-13d6gio",
  "title": "Open-weight models surge to 29% of volume, price per token flattens",
  "why_included": "Vercel’s June gateway data shows cheap volume moving to open-weight models while costly agent workloads stay on frontier models, strengthening the case for risk-based routing.",
  "summary": "In June, open-weight models carried **29% of gateway tokens for under 4% of spend**. Anthropic took **61% of spend on 32% of tokens**, including at least 72% of spend in each high-stakes use case.",
  "practical_implication": "Builders running coding agents should route by workload: test cheaper models on repeatable, high-volume tasks while reserving costly frontier models for work where errors carry more risk. Track quality and spend separately.",
  "agent_context": "In June, open-weight models carried **29% of gateway tokens for under 4% of spend**. Anthropic took **61% of spend on 32% of tokens**, including at least 72% of spend in each high-stakes use case.\n\nBuilders running coding agents should route by workload: test cheaper models on repeatable, high-volume tasks while reserving costly frontier models for work where errors carry more risk. Track quality and spend separately.\n\nThis is anonymized aggregate Vercel AI Gateway data, not a controlled model evaluation. Provider shares reflect its customers and routing mix, while media counts use generated outputs rather than tokens.",
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    "name": "Vercel",
    "url": "https://vercel.com/blog/ai-gateway-production-index-july-2026",
    "published_at": "2026-07-13T07:00:00.000Z"
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  "uncertainty": [
    "This is anonymized aggregate Vercel AI Gateway data, not a controlled model evaluation. Provider shares reflect its customers and routing mix, while media counts use generated outputs rather than tokens."
  ],
  "lifecycle": "Current",
  "published_at": "2026-07-13T07:00:00.000Z",
  "modified_at": "2026-07-13T07:00:00.000Z",
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