The reason nobody is pricing Kimi K2.6 at half the cost of the best closed source models is that there are too many providers of the same model, so the competition drives prices down and they have to charge far less than that. https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6/providers

Totally agree with you. There is only so much time before SF tech runs out of subsidy bucks, and Chinese models take the consumer spotlight