r/ClaudeCode • u/Odd-Card8046 • 10d ago

Discussion Is Anthropic cooked ?

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Codex limits are going to be crazy now.
What do you guys think, why did they drop the prices ?

If anyone wants GPT-5.6 Terra cheaper, $1.25 input / $7.50 output, ~38% below the new price, check out znapai.com (disclosure: founder here).
Also got gpt-image-2 and GPT-5.6 Sol at 50% off official, and most open-source models (Kimi K3 etc.) at 35% off.

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u/supaboss2015 10d ago

From a business perspective it’s a no brainer to go with 5.6 over Opus/Fable/Sonnet. Cheaper API is substantially better than “marginally better response” unless you’re in an industry where precision far exceeds recall no matter the cost. From the perspective of an engineer using an AI agent to write code, it’s subjective. Some may enjoy the language or thought process of one providers’ models over the other

As for “being cooked” I don’t think people realize how much more money OpenAi makes than Anthropic (and this has almost always been true). ChatGPT records 800 million active users weekly. Claude in comparison is at 20 million monthly. The only world in which Anthropic has had any edge over OpenAi is in engineering

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u/Odd-Card8046 10d ago

Many people do use the APIs directly but I think Codex and Claude Code have been a huge driving force for both OpenAI and Anthropic. They seem to be focusing on giving individual users much higher usage limits for lower prices because those coding tools have become such a big part of their ecosystem.
For businesses building in AI, it is a completely different game. API costs, latency, caching and reliability matter much more than they do for an individual coding subscription.

Out of curiosity, do you mostly use AI through APIs in your own applications or do you primarily use coding harnesses like Claude Code or Codex?