alt Hacker NewsThe weirdest thing about Claude pricing is their 5X pricing plan is 5 times the cost of the previous plan.
Normally buying the bigger plan gives some sort of discount.
At Claude, it's just "5 times more usage 5 times more cost, there you go".
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auggierose • today at 1:01 AM
It is not the plan they want you to buy. It is a pricing strategy to get you to buy the 20x plan.
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operatingthetan • today at 1:02 AM
I think they are both subsidized so either is a great deal.
merrvk • today at 6:28 AM
5 times the already subsidised rate is still a discount.
tclancy • today at 3:43 AM
We’ll make it up on volume.
Zambyte • today at 1:01 AM
5 for 5
Those sorts of volume discounts are what you do when you're trying to incentivize more consumption. Anthropic already has more demand then they're logistically able to serve, at the moment (look at their uptime chart, it's barely even 1 9 of reliability). For them, 1 user consuming 5 units of compute is less attractive than 5 users consuming 1 unit.
They would probably implement _diminishing_-value pricing if pure pricing efficiency was their only concern.