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unless they figure out how to make money by themselves, closed models already capurd 99% of reaturly
I buy DeepSeek and MiMo directly from them, on the assumption they're better at it, have a vested interest in me having a good experience and they'll get caching and other stuff right. They're also cheap enough that it's unlikely you'll find a much better deal on those models. I'm likely to also add a small Kimi Code subscription, as the model looks very promising and I don't see any reason to support proprietary US…
I use GLM 5.2 through open router, and it's much much less expensive than Anthropic/GPT5.5.
I do app development with it and I spend maybe $0.20-$0.50 per task that I work on expanding the app where Claude sonnet will come out to $1-2 for the same work, and Claude Opus $5-10