Why it matters
Usage leaderboards are quietly becoming the scoreboard engineering teams route by. When one high-throughput model owns the top of the chart and its own stablemates fill the rest, defaults drift toward it long before anyone runs an eval.
Tokenmaxxing read
Do the division on the record day: of the 8 trillion tokens V4 Flash pushed through OpenCode on Aug. 1, 5 trillion came from free trials and only 3 trillion was paid. That crown is 62.5% subsidized, so it measures who is giving tokens away as much as who is buying them.
Source takeaway
TechNode, relaying reporting from Jiemian, flags the ceiling on its own numbers: the totals cover activity on the platforms being tracked, not DeepSeek's worldwide usage.
