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by killingtime74 18 days ago
Will they lower the price or is this documenting past work
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Their pricing is incredible on the token plan - something like 50b tokens for $60!
No that's not right. It's 50b credits, not tokens. What is a credit? Nobody knows.

Someone did the math a few months ago and paying API prices was the same as the monthly subscription.

To be fair while almost no company publishes what a "credit" or what a 5h window in their subscription plan really is in terms of input/cached input/output tokens, Xiaomi does: https://mimo.mi.com/docs/en-US/tokenplan/Token%20Plan/subscr...
> Nobody knows

Now you know:

2.5 pro: 300/600 credits per input/output token

2.5: 100/200

Cached tokens are 2-3 credits.

If you only use pro, with a 7/1 ratio and no discounts or penalties the $6 plan gets you a total of 12M tokens. This assumes zero cached tokens thought.

Yep, roughly the same. If you max out the sub each month it’s roughly 20% cheaper if you also carefully use all their promotions.

I’ve thrown $50 at it, use UltraSpeed liberally and have yet to exhaust it.

I've found these kind of models (Deepseek + Xiaomi) to be absolutely excellent when it comes to writing documentation for code. We have a bunch of internal tasks that need to be documented for a non-technical team.

I added 20 USD in credits for the Xiaomi models a while ago and they've been happily writing and updating hundreds if not thousand of pages and I still have 7 USD left!