AI Gateway Production Index — August 2026 Every month, routes tens of trillions of tokens between production applications and AI labs. That traffic gives us a view of what AI usage actually looks like in today's enterprise, and we publish it here monthly. See the Production Index reports from , , and .AI GatewayMayJuneJuly The August index reports on AI Gateway data collected through July 2026. Moonshot released Kimi K3 on July 16. Like Z.ai's GLM 5.2 released in June, it is built for long-horizon agent work, so its usage was heavy from the start at about twelve times the tokens per request of its predecessor, K2.5.

It scaled quickly. K3's daily volume tripled between launch week and the final week of July, and by month end its requests were as heavy as Claude Opus 4.8's. On the last full day of July it ranked eighth on the gateway by token volume. The demand was new rather than diverted. K3 processed nearly two-thirds of all Kimi tokens within two weeks and 82% by the final week, while the rest of the family's volume fell only slightly. Open weight's share of gateway spend more than doubled in July to 8.6%. More than 90% of that growth is Moonshot and Z.ai. Moonshot's share of…