---
id: oss-family-share-jan-oct-2026
slug: oss-family-share-jan-oct-2026
title: "Family share within open-weight traffic, January to October 2026"
topic: agentic
period: Jan 2026 to Oct 2026
updated: 2026-11-11
license: CC BY 4.0
canonical: https://www.requesty.ai/data/oss-family-share-jan-oct-2026
---

# Family share within open-weight traffic, January to October 2026

> Which open-weight model families do teams use? In October 2026 DeepSeek held 60% of open-weight traffic on the Requesty gateway. GLM reached 10% after starting the year at 4%, and smaller families such as Gemma, Nemotron and MiMo grew to 23%.

*Topic: Agentic workloads. Period: Jan 2026 to Oct 2026. Last updated 2026-11-11.*

## Why it matters

Open-weight families compete on price and hosting choice. Shifts in share show which releases teams adopt in production, not just in benchmarks.

## Questions this answers

- Which open-source LLM is most used?
- How has DeepSeek share changed in 2026?
- Which open-weight families are growing?

## Key findings

1. DeepSeek: 59% in January, 60% in October.
2. GLM: 4% in January, 10% in October.
3. Other open-weight families: 23% in October.

## Data

| Month | DeepSeek (percent) | MiniMax (percent) | Kimi (Moonshot) (percent) | Mistral (percent) | GLM (Zhipu) (percent) | Qwen (Alibaba) (percent) | Llama (Meta) (percent) | GPT-OSS (OpenAI) (percent) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| January | 58.95% | 0.54% | 2.01% | 25.82% | 3.83% | 4.89% | 2.72% | 1.22% |
| February | 65.41% | 0.83% | 2.07% | 17.22% | 1.36% | 5.16% | 6.22% | 1.71% |
| March | 64.53% | 2.15% | 1.12% | 4.35% | 2.31% | 1.75% | 21.52% | 2.26% |
| April | 35.08% | 1.95% | 2.20% | 20.17% | 1.33% | 5.70% | 32.05% | 1.51% |
| May | 75.39% | 4.75% | 3.49% | 3.88% | 1.18% | 1.51% | 6.07% | 2.81% |
| June | 71.65% | 4.12% | 4.78% | 5.37% | 3.74% | 2.95% | 1.68% | 1.16% |
| July | 59.44% | 3.87% | 3.12% | 3.38% | 14.65% | 5.68% | 1.70% | 2.99% |
| August | 64.35% | 1.76% | 3.84% | 4.12% | 8.54% | 3.91% | 6.57% | 1.36% |
| September | 62.32% | 0.83% | 2.26% | 7.67% | 13.38% | 3.55% | 0.17% | 0.78% |
| October | 59.76% | 0.82% | 1.23% | 2.76% | 10.08% | 1.85% | 0.31% | 0.64% |

## Caveats

- Share of successful open-weight chat completions. Embeddings are excluded.
- January to April values were recomputed with the current family classifier and differ from the April note.

## Cite as

**APA.** Requesty (2026). Family share within open-weight traffic, January to October 2026. Requesty Data. https://www.requesty.ai/data/oss-family-share-jan-oct-2026

```bibtex
@misc{requesty_oss_family_share_jan_oct_2026,
  author       = {{Requesty}},
  title        = {Family share within open-weight traffic, January to October 2026},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.requesty.ai/data/oss-family-share-jan-oct-2026}},
  note         = {Requesty Data}
}
```

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