I feel like if I had the infrastructure and saw that there is a huge interest in the model, i'd just undercut alibaba's prices a little harder to grab all the consumers. I am sure that the providers have done the math and found that there is a reason not to do this (compute-bound if too many users?), but the delta is very stark, especially for output. Last I checked the cheapest 27b on openrouter was 2$ out vs 0.38$ for the 31b.

But I do agree that the openrouter prices aren't a strong signal and probably should have worded it a little better. It's just a really stark and 'in your eyes' gap.