[Almured]

I have been talking about this with a colleague this morning. The 20$ option is just a trail version, I could not do any real work with.

And I wonder whether then subscription model is just a way to create a demand for API. For example, I’m building this portal with the support of an LLM for coding, but then I will need to have an LLM using API token to run the platform giving them additional revenue, a demand that did not exist without the coding I did with the subscription.

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If interference token costs are truly below api levels (excluding training costs), then a cheaper personal subscription & expensive api is an excellent price discrimination / marketing tool. Charging individual devs what they can pay and large corps what they can pay. Collect more revenue than a flat rate for both.

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How are you going to price discriminate profitably when there is effectively no switching cost? Anthropic and OAI are also competing for revenue share in the same market segment.