I pay $100/month to Anthropic and $100/month to OpenAI at the moment, plus whatever I spend on their APIs (usually less than $20/month for each, I use the subscriptions for most things.)

A couple of months ago I was paying $200/month for Anthropic and $20/month for OpenAI. I decided to split it evenly to get full access to both of their offerings.

I've actually chosen not to sign up for their free plans for open source maintainers, because paying the regular subscription price feels more honest, given that I write about them so much.

I do have the free GitHub Copilot for open source maintainers deal - I've had that for years. Given how much code I have published on GitHub over the decades I feel less conflicted about that one.

I sometimes get preview access to models, which includes the ability to use them for free during the preview. That comes with a big catch though: I can't publish any of the code that I write using those previews while the model is still unreleased.

As a result I don't use those preview tokens much at all, because the vast majority of my work is open source and I don't want restrictions on when and where I publish the code I'm producing.