📝 DeepSeek enters the fight for token volume, Anthropic continues to dominate spend Every month, AI Gateway routes tens of trillions of tokens between production applications and AI labs, giving us visibility into what AI usage actually looks like, separate from leaderboards and benchmarks. May 2026 production index summary Total AI Gateway tokens grew +20% MoM; total spend grew +43% MoM. Customers paid almost 20% more per token on average than in April. DeepSeek’s share of tokens jumped from…