alt Hacker NewsCodex quota is suspiciously high right now. Either way, the subscription plans are not sustainable, and perhaps less relevant to any discussion about corporate API use. The prosumer developer plans are an insane deal. It is a golden age right now and it will end. If you tried to use the APIs to achieve the same thing, you would be spending thousands upon thousands of dollars a month. My completely unfounded conjecture is that OpenAI is trying to grab developers back from Claude by burning $$$$.
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I don’t think anyone has to sell inference below cost. If Anthropic is GPU-constrained, then it makes sense for them to charge much much more on API users and push subscribers towards extra billing, because that’s the only knob they can turn. OpenAI has much more capacity based on news reports.
Codex quota is/was 2x its normal amount for some promotion or something. I thought it ran out today but can't check right now
> If you tried to use the APIs to achieve the same thing, you would be spending thousands upon thousands of dollars a month.
Yeah, obviously, not sure why anyone would be using APIs at this point, seems bananas to spend more than 10 EUR per day when these "almost-endless" subscriptions exists.
> My completely unfounded conjecture is that OpenAI is trying to grab developers back from Claude by burning $$$$.
Unlikely, since codex TUI was launched OpenAI pretty much had every developers pocket already as the agent is miles and leagues ahead of Claude Code, pretty much from inception. No other provider comes close to ChatGPT's Pro Mode either, I don't even think it's a quota/pricing thing, have the best models and people will flock by themselves.