alt Hacker NewsOpen router is an upper bound of compute cost for the open source models. So people assume that opus and sonnet really isn’t sucking up 10x the resources because open source models aren’t 10x worse. Idk if it’s true or not, but haiku is $5/m tokens and it is much worse than the $2-3/mt models imo
Openrouter is a startup, what's the indication it serves token at a profit? It could be serving them at a loss to show growth.