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Research investigation R0926 / trend investigation

Chinese Models’ ‘Majority Share’: Tokens, Requests or Spending?

The supplied evidence cannot establish August shares for Chinese-origin models on any of the three Vercel measures. Vercel’s published token and spend figures classify open-weight models, which is a different category.

Current public editionv1Sep 26, 2026
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Interactive figureChinese Models’ ‘Majority Share’: Tokens,...
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Data status3 verified observations

Bar height represents share of vercel ai gateway token volume, selected month. Colors separate the recorded series.

Verified observationHover or focus any mark for exact valuesLast updated Sep 26, 2026

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Each edition preserves the records, method, sources, and downloads available at publication time.

  1. v1 / latestSep 26, 20263 records / 6 sources

    Initial public snapshot with 3 records and 6 cited sources.

Coverage note

The saved Vercel text-lab export ends within July 29; no August rows were extracted for this ledger. No authenticated August OpenRouter rankings-daily response was obtained. The chart therefore shows only Vercel’s published August open-weight figures, not the proposed Chinese-origin ledger.

Dataset ID
spd:chinese-models-majority-share-tokens-requests-or-spending-60e7a128
Stable URL
/research/chinese-models-majority-share-tokens-requests-or-spending-60e7a128
Version
v1
Coverage
2025-12-01/2026-08-01
Records
3
Fields
7
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Chinese Models’ ‘Majority Share’: Tokens, Requests or Spending? data records
EntityMetricValueUnitObservedSourceTransform
Open-weight models; not Chinese-origin modelsShare of Vercel AI Gateway token volume, selected month7%percent2025-12-01https://vercel.com/blog/ai-gateway-production-index-september-2026—
Open-weight models; not Chinese-origin modelsShare of Vercel AI Gateway token volume, selected month13%percent2026-04-01https://vercel.com/blog/ai-gateway-production-index-september-2026—
Open-weight models; not Chinese-origin modelsShare of Vercel AI Gateway token volume, selected month56%percent2026-08-01https://vercel.com/blog/ai-gateway-production-index-september-2026—

Measurement technique

How to read this report

  1. 01Preserved the collection-context cutoff of September 26, 2026, 15:30:47 UTC. Recovering the saved evidence is not a new collection or experiment.
  2. 02Separated model origin, open-weight status and serving provider rather than treating them as interchangeable classifications.
  3. 03Checked the supplied August observation slots against the saved Vercel export and report; left Chinese-lab token, request and spend shares unreported where August data or a finalized origin roster was absent.
  4. 04Compared the documented units, periods and exclusions of Vercel and OpenRouter without combining traffic across gateways. Did not sum daily percentage shares into a monthly share because the checked export lacks the absolute daily denominators needed for weighting.
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