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The article questions the optics of Grok 4.5 being touted as cheap, suggesting that xAI may be artificially subsidizing the price, making it not a true efficiency win compared to GPT or Anthropic.
A developer shares their experience with AI inference costs after switching from subsidized OpenAI Codex to OpenRouter, prompting a discussion about the sustainability of current LLM pricing models and the potential shift towards open-source self-hosting.