I think that OpenAI should reduce the prices even further to be competitive with Qwen or Deepseek. There are a lot of vendors offering Deepseek R1 for $2-2.5 per 1 million tokens output.
As the sibling comment mentions, you're not getting anything production grade for less than $7 per million and that's on input and output.
Nebius is single digit TPS. 31 seconds to reply to "What's 1+1".
Hopefully Deepseek will make it out of their current situation because in a very ironic way, the thing the entire market lost its mind over is not actually usable at the pricing that drove the hype: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-r1
If you want reliable service you're going to pay more around $7~8 per million tokens. Sister commenters mention providers that are considered unstable https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-r1
