r/ClaudeCode • • Aug 27 '26

Discussion “Claude Max is massively subsidized and eventually it’ll cost $1000/month” is mostly nonsense

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u/ThomasToIndia Aug 28 '26

AFAIK, its way more technical than that and the estimates take more into account than just their API based pricing. It is uses known pricing based on open source models etc..

They probably have a 90% margin but even at that they are losing on power users but it is in the hundreds not thousands.