Kimi K2.6 seems lobotomized. Everyone is using 4 bit quantization and offering at prices comparable to 8 bit quantization. Users aren't sophisticated enough to choose the right providers yet.

Routstrd chose @Private Provider Routstr AI as it has the best price, they proxy to @PayPerQ, which in-turn proxies to OpenRouter (correct me if i'm wrong) and OpenRouter just sorts by price/some custom algorithm.

And we don't even know if the providers are lying or not.
Kimi K2.6 is a good model for medium level tasks. It shouldn't be this bad. (Btw GPT 5.5 is great).

Any ideas on how we can handle this better?