I'm not familiar with model pricing trends, did they clearly state how the new pricing compares? (Note that I'm actually asking a question, and am not arguing)
Token prices have increased, but it's not really the whole story at this point, given some models will use far more tokens to complete a task than others. One of the charts in Anthropic's blog posts shows Fable at 'low' reasoning achieving better results for less money than Opus on 'high'.
Depends no the Enterprise - obviously - in the bay area - 0% of the tech companies care in the slightest. And I'm willing to wager < 5% of enterprises would send their traffic to OpenRouter. Most of them don't even want to send traffic directly to Anthropic or OpenAI - which is why Bedrock has gotten so much traction lately.
But - these $3k-$5k/month/engineer bills are going to start to get attention soon - only question is whether the response is to slow down on the $$$ spending or reduce the # of engineers.
From their pricing page, Opus 4.8 costs $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens [1].
[1] https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/over...