| ▲ | onlyrealcuzzo 4 hours ago |
| This sure looks like a race to the bottom to me, and I love it. If Sol isn't the best model, it is up there... You don't cut the price of the best model for no reason... |
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| ▲ | dvt 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > This sure looks like a race to the bottom Always has been. My prediction is that both OpenAI and Claude will go bust unless they deliver a killer product. And unlike scrappy startups, they have a pretty serious deadline because creditors will come a-knockin'. There's little to no functional difference between Kimi, Qwen, Sol, Opus, etc. All flagship models are within like 1-5% of each other and the real moat will be what's always been the hard part: making a good product. |
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| ▲ | matheusmoreira an hour ago | parent [-] | | > All flagship models are within like 1-5% of each other Don't know about that. I'm using code review of my lone lisp project as a benchmark. It's a massive parallel code review where a coordinator cuts up the codebase into sections and dispatches agents to consider each part from different perspectives like quality, maintainability, consistency, correctness, rigor, etc. Ran a complete Fable/max code review. Took over a month on a subscription. Now I've switched to OpenAI and am repeating the exact same review with Sol/max. It's still not done yet but preliminary findings suggest Sol can only reproduce 70-90% of Fable's findings. So I think these models aren't as close as we've been led to believe. | | |
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| ▲ | twelvechairs an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you believe https://artificialanalysis.ai/ This is basically undercutting KimiK3 and Grok 4.6 where previously utilised gad soke advantages but was a step more expensive |
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| ▲ | livinglist an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The lower the merrier. |
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| ▲ | andai 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You do it if you can afford to do it and your competitor can't. |
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| ▲ | psadri 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Who are OpenRouter’s competitors? | | |
| ▲ | aurareturn 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | OpenRouter doesn't decide on the pricing. | | |
| ▲ | resonious an hour ago | parent [-] | | They do decide on the 5% markup. But as far as I can tell, all other routers just match 5%. Not sure what they're competing on. | | |
| ▲ | aurareturn an hour ago | parent [-] | | Yes but Sol dropping in price by 50% is not OpenRouter deciding. It's OpenAI. | | |
| ▲ | mcintyre1994 39 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I don’t think that’s true. OpenAI docs don’t have this price change. I assume they’d be the source for this post if it was true. The banner on OpenRouter for me says Gemini 3.7 discounted for a limited time, but if I click through that I get to this page: https://openrouter.ai/models?discount=true That shows a bunch of models, including Sol, with a discount. None of them say how long it’s for, but I’d assume in all their cases it’s for a limited time as the banner said, and only on OpenRouter. | | |
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| ▲ | fileeditview 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That kind of is a reason. |
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