I Cancelled My ~$200/mo Claude API Subscription, Again.
Last Updated on February 9, 2026 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Adham Khaled
Originally published on Towards AI.
Kimi K2.5 didn’t just lower the price. It destroyed the business model of “renting intelligence.”
At 2:13 a.m. yesterday, my AI agent did something it had never done before.
The article discusses how the advent of Kimi K2.5 and DeepSeek V3.2 has significantly changed the dynamics of AI, especially by making computation nearly free, thereby ending the era of expensive, one-shot AI models. It elaborates on the implications of this shift for developers and the industry at large, including a move towards iterative processes in AI development, and how businesses can adapt to leverage these changes effectively in AI product development, focusing on reliability over mere intelligence.
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