Fund · software

Northstar Ventures

Foundational LLMs

Illustrative figures · not market data

Model subscriptions and API tokens from the labs. Last 12 months to Sep 2026.

RankVendor
#1Anthropic46%+1.5 pts42%19%
#2OpenAI40%+0.4 pts21%9%
#3Google Gemini12%+0.4 pts36%15%
#4xAI4.2%+0.5 pts61%24%
#5Mistral AI1.6%+0.1 pts33%12%
Adoption
Share of businesses buying in this category that buy from this vendor.
Growth
Change in adoption since the previous month, in percentage points.
New adopters
Share of this vendor's customers who first bought in the last 12 months.
Switch rate
Share of this vendor's customers who came from a competitor in the category.

Prototype · data note

Illustrative figures — vendor names are real, every number is invented, and none of it is market data. In production these rates would come from FEB clients’ bill-pay, ACH, and card payments, aggregated so no single client can be identified. Whether FEB may use client payment data this way is an open decision for compliance and counsel.

Prototype · Illustrative data