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bhu8 • yesterday at 6:28 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> I can't imagine OpenAI not backtracking this unless Anthropic does the price hike too.

Same here, but I’m worried it’s the latter. We’ll probably see an Anthropic price hike in a couple of weeks.


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glub • yesterday at 6:41 PM

Interesting thing is that I would have expected Anthropic to do the price hike on the basis that their models are so much better right now. But it's more likely that OAI will have to backtrack regardless of what ANT does. Interesting times ahead.

If ANT does the price hike, OAI will be forced to backtrack because they're just not equal, OAI is behind. ANT would still be a much better value overall, and people will remember that it was OAI that made their ANT subscription more expensive. So the hiatus will happen. There's a lot of users that have $200 plans on both ANT and OAI. $500 leaves the slot for just 1 sub for them.

But I think the price hike is not going to happen. $500 is much, much harder to justify than $200 for the same usage. This is a horrible business decision, so Anthropic may just watch OAI bleed customers.

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