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The usage limit on your $20/month subscription is not $20 of API tokens (if it was, why subscribe?). Its much much higher, and you can hit the equivalent of $20
by ac29 8mo ago
The usage limit on your $20/month subscription is not $20 of API tokens (if it was, why subscribe?). Its much much higher, and you can hit the equivalent of $20 of API usage in a few days.
- scwoodal 8mo agoSo I’m not allowed to use the $20 plan and max out its limits?
- ac29 8mo agoYou can max it out via first party clients only. I dont like it either, but its not an unreasonable restriction.
- sambull 8mo agoI do believe it's unreasonable. The limits are the limits, you reach them there's no more free lunch after. Fix the limits, so the limits are reached at a rate that sustains their business.. ? obviously this WILL happen eventually when they need to pay for things.
- ac29 8mo ago"A rate that sustains their business" at the moment probably looks like API pricing or maybe even higher. That means subscriptions get significantly more expensive and/or limited, which is maybe where things are headed.
- alexandre_m 8mo agoMax out on their terms, not yours. Their bet is that most people will not fill up 100% of their weekly usage for 4 consecutive weeks of their monthly plan, because they are humans and the limits impede long running tasks during working hours.
- dudeinhawaii 8mo agoI think you've stated this in reverse. API limits are infinite but you'd blow through $20 of usage in a maybe 1 hours or less of intense Opus use. The subscription at $20/mo (or $200) allows for vastly more queries than $20 would buy you via API but you are constrained by hourly/weekly limits. The $20/mo sub user will take a lot longer to complete a high token count task (due to start/stop) BUT they will cap their costs.