The ones paying attention and on a budget would still use them. “The best” of anything is usually not cost effective.
Even before reducing the prices, they were already 2 to 3 times cheaper than equivalent alternatives from Anthropic’s ($3in, $15out) and OpenAI’s ($1.75in, $14out) at $1.74in and $3.48out. Now they’re around 10x cheaper.
They have to cut the price because its behind the frontier models. No one would buy it otherwise
The ones paying attention and on a budget would still use them. “The best” of anything is usually not cost effective.
Even before reducing the prices, they were already 2 to 3 times cheaper than equivalent alternatives from Anthropic’s ($3in, $15out) and OpenAI’s ($1.75in, $14out) at $1.74in and $3.48out. Now they’re around 10x cheaper.