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Jun 21, 2026
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The viral US/China binaries are reductive.

Tokens are a commodity but the frontier labs are not. They don’t sell tokens, they sell a capability lead, and you rent it at a premium until it stops being a lead.

The pink line is high because OpenRouter is an aggregator whose entire reason to exist is routing to the cheapest adequate model. This is a proxy fo…
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