Usman Salis
⬤ xAI's Grok Code Fast 1 hit number one on a closely-watched token usage leaderboard, having crunched through over five trillion tokens total and leading the week with 548 billion tokens processed. That puts it ahead of several heavyweight competitors in the same timeframe.
⬤ The weekly rankings show Grok Code Fast 1 at the top with 548B tokens, followed by Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash at 449B and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 at 420B. OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b came in fourth with 361B tokens. Week-over-week numbers tell an interesting story—Grok Code Fast 1 dropped 38%, Gemini 2.5 Flash climbed 8%, and gpt-oss-120b posted triple-digit growth. Still, Grok held onto the crown by sheer volume.
⬤ A longer-view chart tracking late 2024 through October shows cumulative token usage exploding into multi-trillion territory across all major providers. Grok Code Fast 1 grabbed a big chunk of recent activity, but competing models are growing fast too, making it clear the AI platform race is heating up.
⬤ Token throughput is becoming the metric that matters for tracking real-world AI deployment. As companies ramp up coding assistants, inference workloads, and app development, these usage shifts reveal who's gaining traction and how infrastructure is being utilized across the global AI landscape.
Usman Salis
