alt Hacker NewsOwning the client gives them full control over which model to use for which query, prompt caching, rate limiting and lots more. So they can drive massive savings for the ~same output over just giving unrestricted access to the API.
Owning the client gives them full control over which model to use for which query, prompt caching, rate limiting and lots more. So they can drive massive savings for the ~same output over just giving unrestricted access to the API.
Wouldn’t most of the savings be done on the server side anyway? I would be very surprised if Claude code does those on the client side.