AI Inference Pricing Extremely Polarized, With Up to Tens of Thousands-Fold Gap

An analysis of OpenRouter data covering 413 models from 59 providers reveals extreme pricing polarization in AI inference, with the cheapest and priciest models differing by tens of thousands of times, while context lengths have surged 63-fold over three years.

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