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The May 2026 AI Gateway production index shows major shifts in model adoption and spending as teams optimize AI costs.
•DeepSeek V4 jumped from under 1% to 17% token share in a single month by offering pricing 20-50× lower than Anthropic models ($0.14-$0.28 per million tokens).
•Anthropic's spend share grew from 61% to 65%, holding 70-80% of spending on high-stakes use cases including AI agents and coding applications.
•Low-cost models cleared the quality bar for production work at scale for the first time, becoming viable for more than just cost-sensitive tasks.
•Teams implemented smarter routing strategies, directing high-volume work to cheaper models while using frontier models only for quality-critical tasks.
•Despite cost-consciousness, total tokens grew 20% and spend grew 43% month-over-month, showing continued strong AI demand.
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