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Opus 4.7 has all the signs of a smaller model distilled from a newer pretraining run... except a smaller price.

Flash 3.5 raised in price pretty meaningfully over Flash 3

GPT 5.4 got a small price bump over gpt-5.3-Codex/gpt-5.2, then gpt-5.5 doubled pricing over gpt-5.4

Even open weights isn't immune: Kimi K2.6 was originally priced higher despite openly being 2.5 + more post-training, same with GLM 5.1 vs 5

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All while rental prices are spiking month over month, and NVIDIA Inception discounted prices for buying are higher than undiscounted prices for buying 6 months ago...