Chinese models are on track to win the agentic AI price war | The Strategist

Chinese AI labs Z.ai and Moonshot have launched models (GLM-5.2, Kimi-K3) matching Western competitors in capability but at a fraction of the cost—$1.92 per million output tokens versus Anthropic's $25. In agentic AI, where token consumption scales 3,500x higher than standard LLMs, this price gap will compound into decisive market advantage for Chinese providers.

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