alt Hacker News$1500/mth is token pricing.
Your other plans are fixed price with rate limits where you get more tokens than the dollar equivalent you pay monthly. These plans are economical only if majority of users spend less tokens in $ than the plan's costs. This subsidizes the gap vs. power users who spend multiple k$ monthly in API tokens.
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kingstnap • yesterday at 7:37 PM
Next to no one would be using less than the subscription price given how expensive Opus API is.
flyinglizard • yesterday at 7:02 PM
Yea, I’m sure the personal plans are subsidized. I have $200 Claude Max at home and straight API pricing at work and equivalent work would easily cost me 5x if not more on the API.
> Your other plans are fixed price with rate limits where you get more tokens than the dollar equivalent you pay monthly.
Or the fixed cost plans reflect the real cost and the people paying API prices give them the profit.
Anyway, none of my customers will let me bill them $1500 more (about $75 per day) because I'm using AI. And what for? I'm not working to move money from the pockets of my customers to the pockets of AI companies.