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Why is Grok so much cheaper than Claude or GPT?
by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
Why is Grok so much cheaper than Claude or GPT?
- petesergeant 2mo agoElon owns a lot of compute
- iSloth 2mo agoHe owns the DCs and isn’t scrambling for revenue to justify an upcoming IPO
- mrguyorama 2mo agoDemand so much lower they had to resell capacity.
- stickfigure 2mo agoThe answer is simple: They're willing to burn money faster than the others. Nobody's profitable in this space, they can price it however they want as long as investors keep pouring money in. And SpaceX just got a lot of money poured in.
- mohamedkoubaa 2mo agoMy strat until the bubble pops is to just use the most subsidized model with acceptable performance
- slopinthebag 2mo agoBecause the model is probably smaller. Go look at openrouter’s costs for other open models around this performance level, they’re similar.