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The weirdest thing about Claude pricing is their 5X pricing plan is 5 times the cost of the previous plan. Normally buying the bigger plan gives some sort of d
by wewewedxfgdf 7mo ago
The weirdest thing about Claude pricing is their 5X pricing plan is 5 times the cost of the previous plan.
Normally buying the bigger plan gives some sort of discount.
At Claude, it's just "5 times more usage 5 times more cost, there you go".
- Zambyte 7mo ago5 for 5
- auggierose 7mo agoIt is not the plan they want you to buy. It is a pricing strategy to get you to buy the 20x plan.
- radley 7mo ago5x Max is the plan I use because the Pro plan limits out so quickly. I don't use Claude full-time, but I do need Claude Code, and I do prefer to use Opus for everything because it's focused and less chatty.
- auggierose 7mo agoSure, I get it. For me a 2x Max would be ideal and usually enough. Now, guess why they are not offering that?
- prtmnth 7mo agoSame here. I'd love a 2x Max plan! More than enough usage for my needs.
- geggo98 7mo agoJust make two plans and switch, when one of them is exhausted.
- auggierose 7mo agoYes, I hear that is what people do. Annoying though.
- laksjhdlka 7mo agoWhere do you live? I'm in the midwest, US, and theoretical savings between 2x and 5x amounts to a single full bag of groceries. Literally. How can this possibly be a concern?
- auggierose 7mo agoYou are clearly overpaying for your groceries. I can cook for a week from the difference. If there wasn't a significant difference, they would offer 2x Max, the demand is there. But they don't. Clearly, their strategy works on fanboys like you.
- operatingthetan 7mo agoI think they are both subsidized so either is a great deal.
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- apetresc 7mo agoThose sorts of volume discounts are what you do when you're trying to incentivize more consumption. Anthropic already has more demand then they're logistically able to serve, at the moment (look at their uptime chart, it's barely even 1 9 of reliability). For them, 1 user consuming 5 units of compute is less attractive than 5 users consuming 1 unit. They would probably implement _diminishing_-value pricing if pure pricing efficiency was their only concern.
- tclancy 7mo agoWe’ll make it up on volume.
- merrvk 7mo ago5 times the already subsidised rate is still a discount.
- cush 7mo agoYeah the free lunch on tokens is almost over. Get them while they’re still cheap