Counting plans, the cheap Chinese model costs 51x Claude Haiku
rickasaurus · x · 2026-10-30
A pricing comparison circulating on X claims that once subscription plans are counted, the "cheap Chinese model" effectively costs 51x Claude Haiku. rickasaurus draws the conclusion that labs will eventually crush smaller competitors on cost — headline per-token prices can be misleading under real plan-based pricing, and the true cost gap is far more complicated than list prices suggest.
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