… Moonshot’s Kimi K3 is here for Anthropic & OpenAI’s lunch Frontier performance at a far lower price Kimi has absolutely no competition in the open-source world . …
… The cheap prices were never the real prices Subsidized at the start, and the savings held back since The reason any of this is happening comes down to economics that were never sustainable, as running these models at the prices customers got used to has been a money-losing exercise for the companie… …
… It's messier than that, but Qwen gives it some fantastic competition. …
… The next individual plan costs $100 per month, which is five times the price of the Pro. …
… The per-token price still didn't tell the whole story for agentic workflows that run for hours. …
… And at that price, I'd be doing people a disservice, not to mention what else is out there. …
…For example, MiniMax M2.7 is there, which I've actually tested in the past with a MiniMax subscription given that it's one of Claude's most credible open-weight competitors…
… The company has since raised its prices rather dramatically, told legacy users they will be moved to more modern plans, and has even been banning users deemed to "abuse" the platform . …