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5555watch • yesterday at 6:02 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

The 200$ plan was appealing because you got 4x usage for 2x the price.

Now, as it's linear, it makes much more sense to downgrade to 100$ OAI and pick up a 100$ Claude sub. (without doing the numbers) the usage should remain the same, total paid the same, but having access to best of both worlds. It should be a win for the user, and a loss for OAI.

With this in mind, it sounds like a fumble by OAI.


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RussianCow • today at 12:11 AM

> it sounds like a fumble by OAI.

The vast majority of their revenue comes from large businesses buying for their teams, which are almost certainly not going to juggle lower tiers of different subscriptions to save a few bucks.

jpadkins • yesterday at 7:04 PM

This is what I did. Hope it works out. The other benefit is you have a more natural method to avoid lock in. A lot of "improvements" to the agent harness I believe are attempts to build customer lock in.