Surplus Intelligence reports record 312.6 billion daily tokens as rivals question paid demand
Surplus's dashboard shows daily inference volume up about 2.3 times in under a month, while AntSeed's Amos Meiri argues token counts say little about how much anyone actually pays.
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Surplus Intelligence, an onchain AI inference market on Base, reported a record 312.6 billion tokens processed in a single day on October 18, 2026, according to its dashboard. That is roughly 2.3 times the 133.6 billion tokens reported on September 23, 2026.
The figures emerge as token volumes climb across inference markets and a competitor calls for dollar figures instead. Amos Meiri, co-founder of the inference marketplace AntSeed, wrote that token counts “say almost nothing” and that “at minimum, we should ask for transparent USD spend.” Surplus’s dashboard reports user savings rather than spend.
Meiri cited Venice as an example of the disclosure he is calling for: 500 billion tokens a day and $150 million in annual recurring revenue. AntSeed’s own onchain figures are smaller. The company has settled about $310,000 on Base since launch and kept roughly $12,000 in fees, according to Bankless.
Analyst @0xJeff posted that Dolphin, whose token is DLPHN, reached 32.2 billion daily tokens one week after its API went live, up from about 14 billion tokens a day three days earlier.
Inference has become one of the largest uses of x402 payments, Bankless reported on October 20, 2026. Onchain markets offer discounted model access and settle payments from a crypto wallet rather than an account tied to an email, card or identity check.
Surplus says developers using it have cut inference costs by 81%, and that each call routes to the healthiest offer at the user’s minimum discount. AntSeed describes itself as a peer-to-peer marketplace where requests go directly to providers and payments settle in USDC on Base.