> 13-26x cheaper with comparable intelligence, and available across many different inference providers.

Well, compared to 2 months ago, it's no longer 100x more expensive for similar levels of quality...

If they continue monthly-ish releases by 3.9 - by Halloween - they should be close to the best in terms of what you get for what you pay for.

In 2 months, they've gone from basically the bottom of the pack to at least being somewhat usable and competitive.

OpenAI and Anthropic release in a month, and change things. OpenAI is claiming to be close to an Astra release - but that seems like a Fable type release - where they're just releasing a better more expensive model, not more cost effective models.