Token-maxxing is dead, OpenRouter's token usage plateaus

Re:Token-maxxing is dead, OpenRouter's token usage plateaus by brazukadev on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:39PM (#50189600)

I used to think that until I started using DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 for the past 2 days (what a bad name). It is terribly fast! And smart. And cheap.

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Re:Token-maxxing is dead, OpenRouter's token usage plateaus by abalashov on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:30PM (#50202530)

^ This. HN crowd is way too willing to presume the superiority of Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models, or to dismiss the Chinese ones as some distillation parlour trick.

While that is unquestionably going on, these models are legitimately innovative and stand on their own legs.

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