Not sure where you work but at ours we have api access to all of them and can freely switch.

A lot of places already subscribe to both. Indeed, in large enterprises it isn’t uncommon to simultaneously subscribe to Copilot, Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, AWS Bedrock, Gemini, etc — you might subscribe to different ones for different teams/projects/employees/etc, but often the approval by legal/IT/etc is generic not scoped to whoever is using it right now

If you are charged based on usage, you can “soft switch” between them really quickly.

Amen. My employer recently switched Cursor -> Claude, and the whole thing stalled out for around 3 weeks while a BAA (Business Associate Agreement, required for HIPAA compliance) was negotiated and signed.

That's pretty much all enterprise software though, it's pretty much how Microsoft stays in business, and even then if the question of switching is even humoured (the idea of a big company switching away from Office would be inconceivable to many), that'd imply its not sticky enough

I know several people working at UHC that have access to the big 3 providers and switch between them freely, both agentic and in-editor AI.

They even negotiate with all three aggressively.

So not really.

Comes to something then OpenAI’s best hope is to essentially become the next Oracle.

copilot is not the best example as it's a bit like openrouter for enterprises.

Lol at my $job we have one token quota which can be used with all the frontier models.

We built our harness around swapping endpoints on demand. We can send to one model, many models, cloud or on prem infra. Certainly, not everyone has, but this is the future imho.

isn't that a problem for large enterprises?

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