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Re:AI API Prices are 90% Subsidized by python273 on Sunday June 22, 2025 @07:24PM (#44351124)
A much better article on token prices: https://www.tensoreconomics.com/p/llm-inference-economics-fr...

There's not much incentive to subsidize prices for OpenRouter providers for example, and the prices are much lower than the $6.37/M estimate from the article.

https://openrouter.ai/meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct

avg $0.37/M input tokens, $0.73/M output tokens (21 providers)

Llama is not even a good example, as the recent models are more optimized using Mixture Of Experts and KV cache compression.

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