Indian Media: Indian Tech Companies Quietly Shift to Chinese AI Models, Costs Only One-Tenth of OpenAI's

BlockBeats News, July 15 — Recently, an increasing number of Indian tech companies shifting to Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models has drawn attention from Indian media. "Quiet Shift: Indian Developers Favor Chinese AI." India's *Telugu Times* recently published an article under this headline, reporting that a more pragmatic story is unfolding within Indian tech companies: faced with the high costs of U.S. AI services, Indian developers are quietly turning to Chinese-developed models that are more cost-effective and publicly accessible. The report cites one Chinese AI model as an example, stating that its input cost ranges from $0.19 to $1.74 per million tokens (the smallest unit of information processed by large models), while its output cost ranges from $0.51 to $5.40 per million tokens. In comparison, OpenAI GPT-5.5's input cost is between $5 and $12 per million tokens, and its output cost ranges from $30 to $54 per million tokens. [Original Link]