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K3 and K3 Fast are now available from Baseten and Fireworks among others, which matters for teams wanting the leading open-weights model without routing prompts to China-based inference. ZDR toggles globally in the dashboard or per-request via zeroDataRetention. Vercel publishes no flat pricing: it varies by provider and variant, with K3 Fast ~10% above base and regional variants also ~10% higher, so the model endpoints API is the only reliable comparison. (Vercel)
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