alt Hacker NewsPredatory pricing? They have a public API that anyone can use for a public rate. There is no predatory pricing here.
The Claude Code endpoint is a private API. They’re free to control usage of their private API.
Predatory pricing? They have a public API that anyone can use for a public rate. There is no predatory pricing here.
The Claude Code endpoint is a private API. They’re free to control usage of their private API.
Predatory pricing is selling something below cost to acquire/maintain market dominance.
The Claude subscription used for Claude Code is to all appearances being sold substantially below the cost to run it, and it certainly seems that this is being done to maintain Claude Code's market dominance and force out competitors who cannot afford to subsidize LLM inference in the same way such as OpenCode.
It's not a matter of there being a public API, I don't believe they are obligated to offer one at all, it's a matter of the Claude Subscription being priced fairly so that OpenCode (on top of, say, gemini) can be competitive.