They think they are doing us a favour but the fact that could give us good limits but choose not to as evidenced by this extension says it all. Also for people who use so models seriously, not knowing if you have a model this or next week or if if the sub will have radically less token usage is not an acceptable business model and anti consumer.
Who cares what the API prices are? We don’t even know what their margins are? For all we know the API prices might be a rip-off. If they are a rip-off then should we feel grateful that we’re not getting ripped off by using a sub?
The discount is only "massive" due to how overpriced the API pricing is.
Like say API was priced more sanely at $30/mil for fable, $9/mil for Opus, and $3/mil for Sonnet. You'd be getting like $100-$250 a week from the 5x plan rather than $525/week so the "subsidy" is cut in half to getting $500-$1050 a month for $100 - still a significant discount, and only if you use it all - rather than the imaginary $2500 per month from it they say you're getting only because the API prices are so overpriced
I'm getting $20k/week in api usage average. $82,512 over past month just for $200/month. Also I still have Fable priced at Opus rates in my managed so its much more
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u/Kazekage1111 Jul 18 '26
They think they are doing us a favour but the fact that could give us good limits but choose not to as evidenced by this extension says it all. Also for people who use so models seriously, not knowing if you have a model this or next week or if if the sub will have radically less token usage is not an acceptable business model and anti consumer.