alt Hacker NewsSubs lose money on individuals to get those individuals to force their companies to pay for the corporate plan. The economics are bad, but so are the economics of grocery stores selling Milk and Bananas at a loss to drive traffic, which they basically ALL do.
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HDThoreaun • yesterday at 5:43 PM
I havent seen any evidence showing that subscriptions cost the labs money.
toomuchtodo • yesterday at 5:24 PM
Companies don’t want to pay when the value realized does not exceed the cost.
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I pay a lot but barely use it except for some intense days, where the lower plans would have throttled me in like 30 minutes. API billing is still more expensive. If you want to not pay much, go to openrouter and use chinese models. They are cost efficient.