{"id":9995,"date":"2026-06-13T12:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9995"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:02:22","slug":"ai-costs-spike-as-subscriptions-hit-pricing-wall-firms-turn-towards-chinese-llms-open-source-models-to-extend-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9995","title":{"rendered":"AI costs spike as subscriptions hit pricing wall \u2014 firms turn towards Chinese LLMs, open-source models to extend budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong> Jowi Morales <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 13, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nCompanies look for cheaper alternatives as token costs for frontier AI models skyrocket, potentially impacting OpenAI and Anthropic&#8217;s bottom lines. Subscriptions also take a bite out of these startup&#8217;s profitability, as utilization rates higher than 5.7% could lead to losses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/artificial-intelligence\/ai-costs-spike-as-subscriptions-hit-pricing-wall-firms-turn-towards-chinese-llms-open-source-models-to-extend-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jowi Morales &bull; June 13, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}