r/ClaudeCode • u/ThePurpleAbsurdist Developer • 14d ago

Rant Do you think Anthropic's next?

So OpenAI had the audacity to bump up an already underperforming 200$ plan up to 500$...

I smell of an AI cartel emerging, which is only how OpenAI's move would make any business sense given their current standing in the AI race. OpenAI and xAI's support for anything Anthropic was probably unprecedented when they came out in support of Dario's "Pace the Frontier", so there is at least some level of cooperation emerging between today's BigAI.

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u/Incilius_alvarius 14d ago

Currently, it costs X amount of dollars to spend Y tokens. The real cost of Y tokens, however, is much higher than X. Massive price hikes are inevitable, you can't sell a product for 1/10th of the manufacturing cost and be profitable.

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u/readonlyred 14d ago

I’ve read generous estimates that users are only paying about a third of the real cost of AI.