buildConfirmed9 publishers The 1.7x to 3.6x latency range is set by the baseline systems, not the chip, and the report's own publication date is unsettled. Read it as direction, not evidence.
Perspective Coverage
9 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 41%
- Operator
- Operator 31%
- Investor
- Investor 28%
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption14
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives82
- Confidence68
buildOne report1 publisher A 1.5x per-token price still bought a 25 percent cheaper correct answer in AWS's benchmark
AWS's open harness records $0.0021 per correct AIME answer for gpt-5.6-luna after an 80 percent Bedrock price cut. The figure depends on running luna with reasoning disabled while mini runs at its defaults.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
Gemini 3.8 Flash buys three index points for a 45% rise in cost per task
Google held its token rates flat, but the measured cost of an Intelligence Index task rose from $0.40 to $0.58 while the score still trails Fable and Sol. Picking a model for agent work is now a pricing exercise.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives46
- Confidence61
buildOne report1 publisher Thirty-nine retries fit inside the price gap between GLM-5.3-Flash and Opus 4.8
Zhipu's open-weight MoE ties Claude Opus 4.8 on one composite index at roughly a fortieth of its list rate. At that price gap, the practical question stops being which model is better. It becomes how many attempts your router can afford.
Reality
- Evidence24
- Adoption31
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives62
- Confidence30
DeepSeek V4 doubled its OpenRouter token share, and the bill it displaced was ~130x bigger
OpenRouter says DeepSeek went from 9% to 18% of tokens in six months, with agent loops doing most of the work. Token share and spend share are not the same league table.
Publishers:openrouter.ai
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption74
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives70
- Confidence50