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by protocolture 22 days ago
>When discussing LLM pricing, people are missing the plot. The subscription token price is 10x-40x cheaper than API pricing. Your 90$ Claude subscriptions give you close to $1000 to $4000 in equivalent API token pricing.

These are loss leaders that will not be maintained over the long term. Already we see moves to restrict their usage and redirect people back to API pricing.