Domestic Chinese LLMs Too Expensive for Heavy Users: Per-Token Cost Advantage Vanishes When Real Development Workflows Reach Tens of Billions of Tokens Daily

Chinese heavy AI coding users spend 300 yuan/week on Codex vs 7800 yuan/day on domestic models like GLM-5.2, as subscription bundling rather than per-token pricing determines real-world cost.

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