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CuriouslyCtoday at 2:06 AM1 replyview on HN

Anthropic and OpenAI make money on API calls, margins have been reported in public filings. Subs are subsidized.


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dakollitoday at 2:56 AM

That's not possible, read my comment above. These are private companies, there are no public filings regarding their profitability in any sense. You're just making things up.

If you have a machine running at 150 tok/ps you can only make $5820 a month at $15 per 1mm running 24/7. It costs a hell of a lot more than 6k a month to run Claude 4.7 @ 150 tok/ps on that machine 24/7.

This math is a bit off, because you have input tokens too, but regardless its still not profitable especially for how long it takes to turn around a request and the caching is probably not all that profitable.

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