China's daily token use hits 500 trillion in June 2026, nearly four times December 2025
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ITHome reports domestic daily token consumption reached about 500 trillion in June 2026, nearly four times the December 2025 level.
ITHome reports that China's daily token consumption reached about 500 trillion in June 2026, nearly four times the December 2025 level, as large-model services expand rapidly. [1]
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released the 2026 Large-Model Token Service Performance Monitoring Report, covering January-August data from major platforms. [1]
Key findings
- Average domestic TPS doubled to 78.23 tokens per second in August, still below the foreign average of 112.82. [1]
- Average TTFT rose to 1.26 seconds domestically and 2.08 seconds abroad. [1]
- Normalized domestic prices nearly doubled to 13.46 yuan after last year's price war. [1]
- 47.8% of monitored models now support 1-million-token context windows. [1]
Sources
- 中国信通院：6 月国内词元日均消耗量约 500 万亿，是 2025 年 12 月的近 4 倍
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