alt Hacker NewsWon't the Chinese providers have to raise their prices as well due to the economics of serving inference at scale?
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spwa4 • yesterday at 3:46 PM
Buy an M5 max for $4k and you have a portable Deepseek 0731 for life.
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Won't the Chinese providers have to raise their prices as well due to the economics of serving inference at scale?
Buy an M5 max for $4k and you have a portable Deepseek 0731 for life.
Yes. People keep thinking that Chinese models are free or near free for some reason.
In reality, they're raising prices too. I was looking at Kimi K3 prices on OpenRouter and it's nearly the same as Anthropic and OpenAI.