I'm curious about the "cheaper" claim -- I checked Kimi pricing, and it's a $200/mo subscription too?

On openrouter 2.5 is at 0.60/3$ per Mtok. That's haiku pricing.

	▲	storystarling 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The unit economics seem tough at that price for a 1T parameter model. Even with MoE sparsity you are still VRAM bound just keeping the weights resident, which is a much higher baseline cost than serving a smaller model like Haiku.

mrklol 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They also have a $20 and $40 tier.

esafak 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Alifatisk 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you bargain with their bot Kimmmmy (not joking), you can even get lower pricing.

	▲	mohsen1 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		tell me more...