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by dminik 20 days ago
Without actual data I don't know. My gut feeling is that they overall lose money on subscriptions (and especially the free tier that accounts for 95% of all users). And make thin profit (~5%) on API pricing.

But it's just that. A gut feeling.
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Forgeties79 20 days ago
I don’t think it’s a gut feeling. It seems to be the consensus that subscriptions are still heavily subsidized
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anthonypasq 19 days ago
its well reported that inference margins on api pricing are 30-50%
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dminik 18 days ago
No it's not. It's well speculated. Can you give a single source that says they have a 50% margin on inference?
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