alt Hacker News... Token cost is still heavily subsidized by the frontier labs while they're private companies and raise billions whenever they decide. The downward cost in tokens is unsustainable long term without revolutions training or inference of models.
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epolanski • yesterday at 6:02 PM
I run Deepseek v4.1 flash and pay per token.
I get more intelligence and mileage out of few tens of euros on their APIs than I would've got out of Codex+Claude 200$ subscription in June.
If you don't see the downward trend that's a you problem.
There is no evidence whatsoever token cost is heavily subsidized.