alt Hacker NewsRunning an open like Kimi constantly for an entire month will cost around 100-200$, being roughly equal to a pro-tier subscription. This is not my estimate so I’m more than open to hearing refutations. Kimi isn’t at all Opus-level intelligent but the models are roughly evenly sized from the guesses I’ve seen. So I don’t think it’s the infra being subsidized as much as it’s the training.
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varispeed • today at 6:25 PM
How do you get anything sensible out of Kimi?
senordevnyc • today at 6:16 PM
I’m using Composer 2, Cursor’s model they built on top of Kimi, and it’s great. Not Opus level, but I’m finding many things don’t need Opus level.
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Kimi costs 0.3/$1.72 on OpenRouter, $200 for that gives you way more than you would get out of a $200 Claude subscription. There are also various subscription plans you can use to spend even less.