[YetAnotherNick]

It only matters if the rivals have same performance. Opus pricing is 50x Deepseek, and like >100x of small models. It should match rival if the performance is same, and if they can produce model with 10x lower token usage, they can charge 10x.

Gemini increased the same Flash's price by something like 5x IIRC when it got better.

[shafyy]

I bet that the actual "performance" of all the top-tier providers is so similar, that branding has bigger impact on if you think Claude or ChatGPT peforms better.

[wordpad]

Performance or perception of performance

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