Kimi's new model reportedly 30x costlier to serve than V4.1 Flash, sparking skepticism
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-24
AI observer teortaxesTex offers a preliminary take: unless Moonshot has a clever compute arrangement or a very strong Flash-tier model, the new Kimi release is in trouble — it's roughly 30+ times more expensive to serve than V4.1 Flash. Quality alone won't fix that economics, he argues; users will simply scheme to buy Claude Opus instead. Unverified third-party analysis of Kimi's pricing economics.
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