Liquid Inference doubles provider network in one day, undercuts OpenRouter on 30+ models
AccBalanced · x · 2026-10-09
Brett Harrison reports that Liquid Inference doubled its provider network one day after launch, and now beats OpenRouter on pricing for Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Qwen3.8 27B and 30 more models.
Each new provider joining increases price competition, pushing the inference routing market into a bidding phase.
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