alt Hacker NewsThe assertions doing the rounds that Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 are way cheaper than Claude/GPT are not true -- DeepSeek V4 Pro is a lot cheaper but K3 and 5.2 ain't. Turns out that you actually have to fork out some cash for frontier-esque models, be they Chinese or American. Hope that helps.
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is it cheaper for medium scale folks? not everyone needs to go big on ai subscriptions and a solid, reliable midrange option wouldn't go amiss