Open-weight models reach 78.4% of Vercel AI Gateway token volume

Guillermo Rauch's daily snapshot shows open models dominating volume as Vercel moves closer to the center of the model market.

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Primary source: Aligned News - AI Intelligence

Why it matters

Vercel benefits as AI models become easier to swap. If applications route routine work to open models and premium tasks elsewhere, the gateway becomes the durable control point.

A close-up of a server rack shows dominant blue data streams flowing over smaller purple streams, representing the growth of open-weight models.

Vercel founder and CEO Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) said open-weight models handled 78.4% of token volume through Vercel AI Gateway, compared with 21.6% for closed models, in a September 19th daily snapshot. Aligned News highlighted the figure on September 20th after Rauch published the underlying data.…

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