Inference startup engy grows revenue 100% MoM, processing 4-5B Kimi K3 tokens daily
markjeffrey · x · 2026-10-07
Inference provider engy reports revenue growing 100% month over month without relying on OpenRouter or other distributor channels, processing 4-5 billion Kimi K3 tokens daily and scaling up. The team urges users to test its direct service, claiming better pricing and support.
Its site launched MiniMax-H3 and lists a price table for open models with zero data retention (ZDRT): discounts vs official APIs range from 10% to 90% (e.g. deepseek-v4.1-flash, GLM-5.3-flash, Qwen3.8-27b), with kimi-k3 at 35% of official pricing and context lengths up to 1M tokens.
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