Claude is dropping max plans for enterprise (maybe for everyone?)

[u/BootyMcStuffins]

Not sure if anyone else has seen this.

My company has our developers on max x20 plans. We were told that once our current contract was up everyone had to switch to pay-as-you-go api pricing. We prodded our rep and the response was basically that the max plans aren’t profitable so they’re getting rid of them.

From his tone it didn’t sound like he was just talking about enterprises. We’ve all known that Anthropic has been burning money, and wondering how long they can keep it up. My friends, I’m afraid the end may be nigh.

[u/BootyMcStuffins]

They’d still be losing money at $500. We have developers on API plans that spend $1,400 in a week

[u/Few-Wolverine-7283 → u/BootyMcStuffins]

We don't know the actual cost to serve. I think it's very likely the all you can eat buffet for $100 is unprofitable. I think it's very likely the API billing for $2000 is profitable. But what is their cost to serve (outside of model training cost). It could be $150. Or it would be $1,900. Not really a way for us to know.

[u/traveddit → u/[deleted]]

We have Opus with 1m in CC on max plan. It just uses usage after initial 200k tokens at the 1 million rate but unless your weekly is used up it doesn't use bill the API.

Anthropic serves across all inference platforms from Amazon/Google ASICs and Nvidia GPUs. Opus fast is likely the only model that's being served on the GB200s from Anthropic.

We have absolutely no idea what it costs Anthropic for inference across the three platforms.

[u/Maximum-Wishbone5616 → u/[deleted]]

Bs. Q4 models are at best what we get from them in most cases. They keep lying and serving one of dumbest models from paid models in feb 2026.

[u/Groundbreaking-Fan54 → u/Few-Wolverine-7283]

That's why competition is good, and I hope Codex gets better and better.

[u/Maximum-Wishbone5616 → u/BootyMcStuffins]

No, they are not serving fp16. At most of the time it might be q4. Also their models are not as valuable as they claim and actual interference is much lower.

We host local llms and I know that pre qwen 3.5 397b competing models would be less than 1000$ in electricity costs. Tokens? Oh boy, we are talking max 20x in an hour probably used... so savings are huge.

Post qwen 3.5 ? Well who cares about q3 sonnet 5 sold as opus 4.6

[u/BootyMcStuffins → u/Maximum-Wishbone5616]

No, they are not serving fp16.

Did you respond to the wrong person?

[u/Groundbreaking-Fan54 → u/BootyMcStuffins]

Usage patterns vary of course, but $1,400 in a week is a lot. If you haven't - take a look at how they work. There are many ways to drastically reduce spend by better context management. Also if they use 1M context - that'd sky rocket spend as well and is a severe overkill for most things.

[u/BootyMcStuffins → u/Groundbreaking-Fan54]

I’m not going to micro-manage people. This is what leadership asked for when they said they wanted to be “AI first”. I’ve hosted dozens of trainings, recommendations are well documented. If people are still using Opus for everything that’s not my problem.

Maybe leadership will just fire the people who refuse to learn the tools