alt Hacker NewsHy4 apparently has ludicrous traction on OpenRouter already (https://openrouter.ai/tencent/hy4-preview), with trillions of tokens processed in a couple days: more than GLM 5.3 in a week. That said, it's relatively cheap with a 5% cache cost when everyone is still doing 10%/20% cache costs, so Hy4 may be more compelling.
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redox99 • yesterday at 10:57 PM
It's very likely tencent games those stats, buying their own tokens.
Dinux • yesterday at 8:45 PM
Which explains why almost none of my request go though
npn • yesterday at 8:29 PM
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cyanydeez • yesterday at 8:08 PM
i'd be curious if openrouter is just being gamed by these publishers by paying for the exposure.
wouldn't trust they dont do Capitalism like the rest of the AI field.
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I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago. It's actually often the biggest cost and it tends to be hidden away on most platforms!
https://martinalderson.com/posts/watch-out-for-cache-read-co...
Btw I still haven't came across any decent model that is <$0.01/MTok cache costs apart from deepseek thru their official API (even with the price increases).
Seems like a bit of an opportunity for someone to take - drop cache read costs significantly.