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We can use OpenRouter pricing to get an idea about what competitive inference pricing is like without R&D or other costs, and indeed we'd be screwed if we had t
by edg5000 2mo ago
We can use OpenRouter pricing to get an idea about what competitive inference pricing is like without R&D or other costs, and indeed we'd be screwed if we had to pay those rates. We'd go from 100-200 USD to 2000-4000 USD/m.
- kingleopold 2mo agono if prices were that high, millions of developers would switch to hand writing, open source LLM help and outsourcing at those levels, AI companies know this, you should too.
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- edg5000 2mo agoIf OpenRouter prices aren't competitive, the providers would need a cartel to sustain that. It's a commodity market.
- kingleopold 2mo agoYes they will buy openrouter, pass AI laws and regulations so you all pay extra $$$.This always happen with new real industry. Remember how they built cities for cars. This new laws will day all innovation and slow it for few more decades too but this time they will let China win instead because in China they have all of it aligned, no need to have cartel there. Openrouter and it's new owner will restrict othe models, because they will be part of cartel too.
- oblio 2mo agoOr it could be: 1. a subsidized race to the bottom 2. in a frothy bubble market 3. where VC, investments funds are burning money out of FOMO 4. and a desire to eliminate labor costs 5. and governments want to control a technology that will probably be a major military asset
- FeepingCreature 2mo agoNot sure what you're talking about here. Kimi K3 is frontier scale and sells competitively at $2.80 input, $14 output per 1M tokens. edit: oh you mean month? Sure, but then it fully depends on your usecase. I agree that subscriptions are heavily subsidized though.
- mikrotikker 2mo agoBear in mind the Chinese AIs are subsidized by the party so theyre not exactly reflective of the real cost.