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AI Usage > Model vendor

Written by Tom Williams

Dataset: AI Usage

Entity: AI Usage Measurement

Field ID: model_vendor

Type: Text

Description: The vendor of the model (e.g. anthropic, openai). Note that this is the maker of the model, which may differ from the AI tool reporting the usage.

Source: Calculated

Transformation logic: Calculated from the normalised model reference.

App Mapping

GitHub Copilot

Calculated: from the model string, one of anthropic, openai, google or unknown

Anthropic Claude (coming soon)

anthropic

Cursor (coming soon)

Calculated: from the model string, one of anthropic, openai, google, xai or unknown

OpenAI Platform (coming soon)

openai

OpenAI Codex (coming soon)

N/A

Reporting Use Cases

The Model vendor field separates who makes the model from who sells the tool. A team on GitHub Copilot may be consuming mostly Anthropic models, and only this field shows it.

  • Vendor concentration: Group by vendor with SUM(output_tokens) to see how dependent the team is on a single model maker.

  • Negotiation and planning: Vendor mix is the figure that matters when evaluating a direct contract with a model provider rather than buying through a tool.

  • Not the reporting tool: The tool that produced the record is project_source, not this field. Copilot usage on Anthropic models has vendor anthropic.

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