@DeRonin_: My entire AI stack is now Chinese 87% cheaper. same revenue swaps by task: 1. reasoning / backend brain Opus 4.8 → Kimi…
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A user reports replacing American AI models with Chinese alternatives across reasoning, code generation, agent loops, bulk processing, and image/video generation, achieving 87% cost reduction with only 4% average quality drop and unchanged revenue.
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My entire AI stack is now Chinese
87% cheaper. same revenue
swaps by task:
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reasoning / backend brain Opus 4.8 → Kimi K2.7 benchmark gap: ~8% · price: ~11x cheaper
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code generation GPT-5.5 → Qwen 3.7 Max benchmark gap: ~18% · price: ~7x cheaper
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agent loops + tool calling Sonnet 4.7 → GLM 5.2 benchmark gap: ~3% · price: ~5x cheaper on input
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cheap volume / bulk processing GPT-5.5 mini → MiMo V2.5 benchmark gap: ~6% · price: ~12x cheaper
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image generation GPT-Image-2 → Wan 2.5 benchmark gap: ~5% · price: ~8x cheaper
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video generation Sora 2 → Kling 3.0 benchmark gap: roughly equal · price: ~6x cheaper
[ result after 30 days: ]
operating costs dropped 87%, output quality dropped 4% on average, revenue unchanged
the most important that these models will be not banned in a month and i can run them locally
nobody will steal my data and i can learn them as i need
full article drops tomorrow with:
exact routing logic per task type the 2 cases where I still pay for American the migration playbook anyone can copy in a weekend
VERY IMPORTANT to get migrated now, while it’s not too late
was preparing it for all weekends, since most of ppl here don’t understand the level of disaster
i already turned off all updates from gpt or claude
and migrated almost the whole my system on chinese once
just for critical decision keeps opus 4.7 still (just question of time when i’ll switch it as well)
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