Re:Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
by FeepingCreature on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:41AM
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> Sure. Issue is, no one is providing on how much it actually costs to burn these tokens.
You can assume Openrouter open-model providers serve at or above margin, because there's no branding so there's no reason to do it unless you can be profitable. If the Anthropic models are anywhere in that ballpark, they're very comfortably profitable on API.
You can assume Openrouter open-model providers serve at or above margin, because there's no branding so there's no reason to do it unless you can be profitable. If the Anthropic models are anywhere in that ballpark, they're very comfortably profitable on API.