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Restrict a top model and a grey market fills the gap. Chinese devs buy Claude tokens for ~10% of list via transfer stations.
Do not touch it. Read it as demand: dev and agent workloads want Claude badly enough to pay for side channels.
Builders: platform dependence risk.
The biggest new customer of AI is another AI. On OpenRouter, agentic usage is up 14x since Feb 2025.
Humans? 2.8x.
Agents out-pull people. Before you spiral on bills: ~70% of that agent volume rides on cheap cached prompts.
You control cache hit rate. Cost hides there.
Thought your voice pipeline sent everything to Deepgram? Maybe not.
Vercel AI SDK fixed it: options like keyterm, paragraphs, sentiment, intents, replace were silently dropped before /v1/listen.
Diarize is now off by default (a paid add-on). Check costs and output first.