Alex Atallah (posted 2026-06-03) declares "The Big Crunch is here," citing a 10x…

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Alex Atallah (posted 2026-06-03) declares "The Big Crunch is here," citing a 10x recent rise in inference costs and warning a further 10x would bankrupt companies. He points to OpenRouter as a cost-saving tool—market-priced model selection, routing and data transparency—echoed by jacky (@jjacky), who praises its Pareto router and Workspaces caps.

The Big Crunch is here.

Companies are realizing:
- their inference bill grew 10x in the last few months
- another 10x growth will bankrupt them

This is what @OpenRouter is for! The best market prices for each model, + clear data & routers to help you choose the best OSS model

jacky (@jjacky)

openrouter's pareto router (for coding) is probably the most underrated way to save on ai coding costs

you set the intelligence level+cost, we choose the best model for your use case

also, we have workspaces which allows being able to set max usage

thx @theinformation

— https://nitter.net/jjacky/status/2061867569775026435#m