Open weight model hosts don't have the compute to meet enterprise demand. A large part of why these models are so cheap is because overall demand for them is incredibly low. Back in May, Gemini alone was doing about a month's worth of Openrouter tokens every day.
I disagree totally. DeepSeek raised prices because they couldn’t serve the demand. But there are tons of American vendors ready to fulfill it. Many enterprises, including the one I work for, are swapping to open weights.
