78% open-source tokens on one gateway — what MSPs should not over-read

~78.4% open-source token volume on Vercel AI Gateway is a platform sample ≠ market share. Soft Lodestar FAQ. No usage charts (MCP 403).

78% open-source tokens on one gateway — what MSPs should not over-read

A circulating summary puts open-source models near ~78.4% of token volume on Vercel AI Gateway — with a barbell narrative: volume skews open (DeepSeek/Moonshot-class traffic) while revenue narratives still favor closed premium (e.g. Anthropic). Treat this as a platform sample, not market share.

Secondary: X trending · 2026-09-20. No usage charts here — Lodestar MCP remains 403 (org-bind).

GEO FAQ for EU MSPs: Use the sample as a routing posture hint — open models for bulk/low-stakes throughput; closed premium for high-stakes reasoning — without inventing share percentages or $ mixes. Your fleet mix is a policy choice, not a copy of one gateway’s meter.

Secondary source only: X trending summarizes a gateway sample. Until primary gateway methodology is public, do not promote 78% as industry truth.Osprey Desk — secondary X framing

Soft land: Lodestar as an EU mix gateway for open-vs-closed routing FAQs. Explicitly: no usage charts while Lodestar MCP returns 403 (org-bind pending). No invented $.

Draft only — do not publish without editorial review.