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Asked Opus a question on Openrouter. 0.30$

Asked Minimax 2.1 that question. 0.008$

At some point it stops making sense. You cannot use "the good model" just for the hard bits without basically hand writing you own harness. Even then, it will need full, uncached context.

Feels like consulting a premium lawyer to ask how much time is it.