Seems like we've reached the event horizon of whether AI advances are worth paying attention to.
I recommend opencode or something akin to it to play with models. Any big model updates or hot new ones will naturally run across your desk that way
A chinese model being in the same ballpark of capability at half the price sounds believable to me.
Spark is actually the interesting one imo. It's significantly better, also significantly faster. If you are ok with letting Meta soak up your data (which DS does too) it's also the same price.
it's still $3/$15 for all providers on openrouter
because of some Kimi license
Uptime looks crap, though.
So we won't see any price decrease unless Kimi changes the license of K3
My read is, OpenAI is neither able to claw b2b money (away from Ant) nor are they able to stave off open weights on the other. In short, they're struggling to hold onto their distant #2 position in the coding market, and these pricing changes reflect a (desperate) change in strategy.
the private endpoint costs 10x (azure).
private endpoints for deepseek (lots of providers) also cost about 10x more.
but 10x more for deepseek is $0.028 cached input, and 10x more for luna is $0.10.