OpenAI and Anthropic cut LLM API prices by up to 80%
Tool · Hacker News · stat: ↓80% Data scientist Max Woolf tracked API pricing trends showing OpenAI and Anthropic slashed flagship LLM inference costs by up to 80% in recent months. Hardware…
Tool · Hacker News · stat: ↓80%
Data scientist Max Woolf tracked API pricing trends showing OpenAI and Anthropic slashed flagship LLM inference costs by up to 80% in recent months. Hardware optimization, distilled models, and aggressive enterprise competition are driving API margins down, dramatically lowering operational burn for startups reliant on frontier model calls priced below $0.50 per million tokens.
Rapid LLM commoditization shifts defensibility from raw model access to workflow integration Collapsing inference costs allow founders to run heavier multi-agent prompts without wrecking gross margins this quarter.
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