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Vercel's October 2026 AI Gateway Production Index shows open-weight models now process 71.5% of tokens and claim 23% of spend — quadruple June's share — while Anthropic's overall spend share fell below 50% for the first time. Nearly one in three teams changed their most-used lab in September, an index record.
Vercel has taken Drives out of beta, giving Vercel Sandbox a mountable, persistent filesystem that survives sandbox shutdown. Here is what it changes for agent fleets.
GitHub mitigated Oct. 12 degradation in Actions, Issues and Projects but notifications remain backlogged, while Vercel confirms GitHub-connected builds are failing. What agent teams should pause and check.
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