The reason people aren’t freaking out is because most people are using heavily subsidized subscriptions.
I tried the cheapest provider on openrouter and burned through $50 in a few days. Quality was ok, seems slightly above Luna quality perhaps? But that $50 is 1/4 of my codex subscription where I could have burned that many tokens or more using Astra within my weekly reset.
This won’t last forever but as long as the frontier labs are subsidizing this heavily the open models won’t matter.
I tried the cheapest provider on openrouter and burned through $50 in a few days. Quality was ok, seems slightly above Luna quality perhaps? But that $50 is 1/4 of my codex subscription where I could have burned that many tokens or more using Astra within my weekly reset.
This won’t last forever but as long as the frontier labs are subsidizing this heavily the open models won’t matter.