--- title: DeepSeek enters the fight for token volume, Anthropic... description: Vercel's June 2026 AI Gateway production index reveals two major trends from May: DeepSeek's token share surged from under 1% to 17% following the launch of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/deepseek-enters-the-fight-for-token-volume-anthropic-continues-to-dominate-spend-cais1dy8h twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DeepSeek enters the fight for token volume, Anthropic continues to dominate spend | daily.dev og:description: Vercel's June 2026 AI Gateway production index reveals two major trends from May: DeepSeek's token share surged from under 1% to 17% following the launch of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/deepseek-enters-the-fight-for-token-volume-anthropic-continues-to-dominate-spend-cais1dy8h og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CaIs1dY8H.png og:image:alt: DeepSeek enters the fight for token volume, Anthropic continues to dominate spend og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DeepSeek enters the fight for token volume, Anthropic continues to dominate spend **[Vercel](https://daily.dev/sources/vercel)** · 6 min read · 4 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Vercel's June 2026 AI Gateway production index reveals two major trends from May: DeepSeek's token share surged from under 1% to 17% following the launch of DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro, priced 20–50× cheaper than comparable Anthropic models, yet its spend share stayed near 1%. Meanwhile, Anthropic grew its spend share from 61% to 65%, dominating 70–80% of spend across high-stakes use cases like coding agents and back-office automation. Overall token volume grew 20% MoM and spend grew 43% MoM. Teams responded by routing cheap, high-volume tasks to low-cost models while reserving frontier models for quality-critical work. Gemini 3.5 Flash saw slow adoption compared to 3.0 Flash, illustrating cost-driven upgrade hesitancy. The data signals growing pricing sensitivity alongside continued investment in frontier AI. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. 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