One quiet takeaway from this autumn's LLM price cuts: models are turning into a commodity.Max Woolf counted 29 providers...

One quiet takeaway from this autumn's LLM price cuts: models are turning into a commodity.Max Woolf counted 29 providers on OpenRouter hosting one DeepSeek variant. When that many sell near-identical output, price is the only lever left.For app builders, the practical move is boring: keep the model behind one interface and the provider in config. Switching should be a deploy, not a rewrite.https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/#LLM #AI #WebDev #SoftwareArchitecture

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