Horace He(@cHHillee):There's an interesting distortion in inference pricing that appears to be driven by openrouter's routing. Namely, ridiculously cheap prefill and very expensive decode. For GLM 5.3, https://t.co/07u3tv4AS4 (highest volume provider) charges $0.08/M input but $5.00/M output!(1/5)

2026.10.05 00:32

There's an interesting distortion in inference pricing that appears to be driven by openrouter's routing. Namely, ridiculously cheap prefill and very expensive decode. For GLM 5.3, (highest volume provider) charges $0.08/M input but $5.00/M output!(1/5)

Xiaoyin Qu@quxiaoyin

2026.10.04 08:03

Guys, did you see the inference price war for open weight models in openrouter? It’s bloody war to compete on the lowest price. Reminds me of electricity. I keep hearing inference is huge margin but then it seems it’s a war to zero at openrouter nowadays. I finally understand why openrouter charges 5.5%. I keep hearing stories of data centers in Finland, Philippines and Southeast Asia that are just cheap, cheaper and cheapest? I wonder how US neoclouds cope with this? I mean enterprise is a good market I’m sure.

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