Not sure what you're talking about here. Kimi K3 is frontier scale and sells competitively at $2.80 input, $14 output per 1M tokens.

edit: oh you mean month? Sure, but then it fully depends on your usecase. I agree that subscriptions are heavily subsidized though.

no if prices were that high, millions of developers would switch to hand writing, open source LLM help and outsourcing at those levels, AI companies know this, you should too.