alt Hacker News> Their api pricing is absurdly expensive.
I assume at this point that it subsidizes subscriptions.
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qingcharles • today at 5:58 AM
Massively subsidized. As soon as my Claude switches from subscription to overage I have to tap out quickly.
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HeWhoLurksLate • today at 2:40 AM
yes, it absolutely does.
I've gotten more work done on a second chatgpt pro $100/mo subscription than I did with ~$150 of paying for usage through the app.
Subscriptions are a mechanism to attract developers, who then advocate that their company should use the API.