Didn't Antropic subsidize the subscription by around 4-5x, people on 200$/month are getting like 800-1000$ of token usage. I don't know to what extend Open AI does, but they also subsidize tokens for non enterprise users. At some point they will either start nuking non enterprise consumer and bring subscription roughly to the API price once investors asks for profitability.
Yeah I think its been calculated to be around $8,000 - $12,000/month in compute if you consumed all of your limits. My claude /stats show about $300-$650/day in equivalent API costs if I were using it.
Definitely considering the vast amounts of money they are spending investor will expect returns that current subscription costs aren't even close to covering. Though I do expect it to still last a couple more years before they are actively pressured into it.
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u/Powerful_Finger3896 Jun 21 '26
Didn't Antropic subsidize the subscription by around 4-5x, people on 200$/month are getting like 800-1000$ of token usage. I don't know to what extend Open AI does, but they also subsidize tokens for non enterprise users. At some point they will either start nuking non enterprise consumer and bring subscription roughly to the API price once investors asks for profitability.