[port11]

I wonder if they’re truly subsidised or if the API pricing is just massively inflated. Genuine doubt.

My CC stats show me using almost 300$ of Sonnet tokens on the 20$ plan. Is Anthropic willing to forgo 93% of the profit? A bit less than that but API is priced, say, 3x what it should be?

CC is great, but Sonnet (my main model) isn’t worth the API pricing. The cheap-but-good models arrive at similar results for much less (for context I’m using Aivo with CC).

[danny_codes]

Anthropic is making money from people who under-utilize their subscriptions, and presumably by sneaky throttling or not-sneaky throttling power users. Currently they are in an adoption race. Whether being first will actually let them "win" the market (and the market is a bit ill-defined) is unclear.

[predkambrij]

To my feeling, I'm getting usage of Opus (and Fable before the cut) that's greater than what I got from Sonnet last year. I reached $100 of usage when weekly was at 50%. This means, I could squeeze $800 worth of tokens for $20.

[port11]

Anthropic has sent out a newsletter explaining they were more or less adding 50% (even 100%?) of quota to everyone, due to some great deal they made. That might be it. I do get lots more usage lately.