Chinese LLM vendors push API prices lower as competition intensifies
sen_o · reddit · 2026-07-21
A Reddit post says **Chinese LLM API pricing competition is getting intense**, with vendors undercutting one another aggressively. - The poster notes that Chinese models are already much cheaper than OpenAI or Anthropic, but the price war continues inside China as well. - Models such as **Hy3** and **DeepSeek V4 Flash** are cited as especially aggressive on pricing. - **Kimi K3** appears to be taking a different approach, which the poster says makes it interesting to compare in real-world usage. - The takeaway is that experimentation is becoming cheaper and easier as API costs keep falling.
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