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You will start seriously worrying about coding AI bills within 6 months

by nextworddev 1y ago

philomath_mn 1y ago
Why is that?
- throwawayoldie 1y ago
  Because at some point, Anthropic needs to stop hemorrhaging money and actually make some.
  - fragmede 1y ago
    Uber, founded in 2009 was finally profitable in 2023. That's a bit longer than 6 months.
    - numbrss 1y ago
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    - mvieira38 1y ago
      Different situation. Uber's entire strategy was to "disrupt" the transportation industry by undercutting everyone, with the promise that eventually adoption (and monetization via data, advertising, etc.) would be large enough for fees not to rise so much as to push consumers and drivers into the established taxi industry. Anthropic, on the other hand, is a competitor brand in a brand-new industry, one with heavy reliance on capex and exploding employee salaries, for that matter.
      - fragmede 1y ago
        Totally different than except for the fact that it shows that "money" is able to wait 14 years, which is 28x longer than 6 months.
  - theshrike79 1y ago
    And when Anthropic raises the prices enough, people will jump ship. That's why you don't pay the yearly license for anything at this point in time. Pay monthly and evaluate before each bill if there's something better out already.
    - nextworddev 1y ago
      and that jumping ship didn't happen IRL, cursor ARR jumped 50% after their pricing change.
alwillis 1y ago
You will start seriously worrying about coding AI bills within 6 months Nope. More open models ship everyday and are 80% cheaper for similar and sometimes better performance, depending on the task. You can use Qwen-3 Coder (a 480 billion parameter model with 35 billion active per forward pass (8 out of 160 experts)) for $0.302/M input tokens $0.302/M output tokens via openrouter. Claude 4 Sonnet is $3/M input tokens and $15/M output tokens. Several utilities will let you use Claude Code to use these models at will.
- gorbypark 1y ago
  Where are you seeing those prices? Cheapest one I see (and it has horrible uptime/throughput numbers) is $0.40/$1.60, and it's more like $2/$2 on average.
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You will start seriously worrying about coding AI bills within 6 months

philomath_mn 1y ago

Why is that?

throwawayoldie 1y ago
Because at some point, Anthropic needs to stop hemorrhaging money and actually make some.
- fragmede 1y ago
  Uber, founded in 2009 was finally profitable in 2023. That's a bit longer than 6 months.
  - numbrss 1y ago
    [dead]
  - mvieira38 1y ago
    Different situation. Uber's entire strategy was to "disrupt" the transportation industry by undercutting everyone, with the promise that eventually adoption (and monetization via data, advertising, etc.) would be large enough for fees not to rise so much as to push consumers and drivers into the established taxi industry. Anthropic, on the other hand, is a competitor brand in a brand-new industry, one with heavy reliance on capex and exploding employee salaries, for that matter.
    - fragmede 1y ago
      Totally different than except for the fact that it shows that "money" is able to wait 14 years, which is 28x longer than 6 months.
- theshrike79 1y ago
  And when Anthropic raises the prices enough, people will jump ship. That's why you don't pay the yearly license for anything at this point in time. Pay monthly and evaluate before each bill if there's something better out already.
  - nextworddev 1y ago
    and that jumping ship didn't happen IRL, cursor ARR jumped 50% after their pricing change.

alwillis 1y ago

You will start seriously worrying about coding AI bills within 6 months Nope. More open models ship everyday and are 80% cheaper for similar and sometimes better performance, depending on the task. You can use Qwen-3 Coder (a 480 billion parameter model with 35 billion active per forward pass (8 out of 160 experts)) for $0.302/M input tokens $0.302/M output tokens via openrouter. Claude 4 Sonnet is $3/M input tokens and $15/M output tokens. Several utilities will let you use Claude Code to use these models at will.

gorbypark 1y ago
Where are you seeing those prices? Cheapest one I see (and it has horrible uptime/throughput numbers) is $0.40/$1.60, and it's more like $2/$2 on average.
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