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by andrekandre 35 days ago

  > Neither Anthropic nor OpenAI allow Business nor Enterprise customers access to the high value $200/mo plan. 
they may not "allow" it, but i've seen first hand enterprises encourage employees to use these accounts personally and get reimbursed later to avoid pay-as-you-go w/limits pricing for users who do tokenmaxing as a cost control measure...
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Yeah I just mean that if a business came to them and asked for fifty licenses to the $200/mo plan, OpenAI would tell them to kick dirt and basically pay API pricing. Startups should 100% just be telling their employees they can expense up-to $whatever/mo in AI-related expenses, and let software engineers go buy personal Codex/Claude subscriptions.
Many large companies won't allow employees to expense such things personally. It is too easy to allow other fraud if that is allowed.

Though large companies will demand limits if API or whatever they can get is too expensive.

Do these companies know they're letting their source code (and internal documentation, chats, communications, etc.) get used as training data? On the flat-rate consumer subscriptions, everything you send is fair game to train on, which is not true of the enterprise plans.

Shows how much they value their IP, I guess.

its completely ironic but outside of claude ignore/harness rules, i've seen this stuff go out the window where ai is concerned or just brush it under the rug