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pier25today at 1:36 PM1 replyview on HN

> 10x the subscription price, but this seems high

Inference is cheap but training is quite expensive. Plus all the money they've invested and keep investing on hardware, data centers, etc. And evidently they also need to make a profit at some point.


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xienzetoday at 1:39 PM

> Inference is cheap

Maybe from the perspective of traditional, turn-based chat. But when you start having developers command an army of agents that work around the clock, those cheap tokens start adding up fast...

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