LLM Price War Escalates: 'Whale' Offers Top-Tier Quality at Rock-Bottom Prices
cedric_chee · x · 2026-07-31
The price war in the large model market continues to intensify. A developer pointed out that a provider known as 'whale' just pulled off the most aggressive pricing flex of the year, offering luna max-level quality at an exceptionally low cost.
Given that the previous luna model was already dirt cheap, this move marks another leap toward making high-performance LLM APIs overwhelmingly accessible.
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