alt Hacker NewsI don't live in USA. I'm getting paid around $2500/month and that's good salary for developers here, plenty of folks are getting below that number.
So this pricing is just completely outside of our economics and nobody I know would pay that, no company will justify spending $20k/month when they can hire 10 more developers instead.
It is very interesting unfolding of events. Can't wrap my head around it completely.
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Not justifying AI expenses, but $2500/mo could easily cost employer close to 5000$/mo depending on country.
> no company will justify spending $20k/month when they can hire 10 more developers instead.
one big enough to license the model and self host on existing infra.
Hiring 10 more developers comes with its own set of difficulties and additional overhead
I'll add a concrete example from a not-too-cheap-anymore EU country: Estonia.
* Average software dev salary in Q12026: 4945€ / month [1]
* Total cost for the employer: 6616.41€ [2]
For $20k/month, you'd get 2 x full time mid-level developers + 1x junior dev or QA.
So the calculation becomes: which option can produce better results for your specific use-case, "you + Fable" or "you + 2x mid-level developers + 1x QA". (and from personal experience, mid-level in Estonia = senior dev in the US, in terms of skillset and experience.. but YMMV)
(Of course that's simplified. Your full time devs need _some_ level of AI subscription as well + hardware so add a couple of hundred to their salary per month etc so you might only be able to afford 2x mid level devs, instead of 2.5)
[1]: https://palgad.stat.ee/en
[2]: https://www.palgakalkulaator.ee/en