Critics call Claude Frontier Inference overpriced, promote Kimi K3 and DeepSeek Flash alternatives
markjeffrey · x · 2026-08-25
The author criticizes Claude Frontier Inference for being excessively expensive, capped, and prone to outages, suggesting Kimi K3, GLM 5.3, or Deepseek Flash via the engy platform as alternatives.
According to the provided pricing list, engy offers the following models and their per-million-token costs (Input / Output):
- Kimi K3: $1.50 / $7.50 (1M context, now supports image input)
- GLM-5.2: $0.68 / $1.50 (262K context)
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.045 / $0.09 (1M context)
- Qwen3.8-27B: $0.045 / $0.32 (1M context)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: $0.045 / $0.30 (208K context)
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