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Most real businesses are on API billing, not Max.
by solenoid0937 6mo ago
Most real businesses are on API billing, not Max.
- lelanthran 6mo agoNone of the companies I deal with (~40) are on the API. Some where, but that experiment lasted a month. Until they go public, we are all just guessing.
- sroussey 6mo agoCC has such egregious API subsidies that it’s hard to not to leverage it unless the license tells an enterprise otherwise. Love the subsidized pricing while it lasts.
- lelanthran 6mo ago> CC has such egregious API subsidies that it’s hard to not to leverage it unless the license tells an enterprise otherwise. It's hard to tell, honestly - about half the HN population will tell you that all the token providers are running inference at a profit when using the API and only the subscriptions are subsidised, while the other half will tell you that everything, including both the API and the subscriptions, are subsidised (i.e. running at a loss).
- adastra22 6mo agoWhat API subsidy? What are you talking about?
- ijk 6mo agoSome days I really wish the timing had worked out for me to build a serious private inference server before hardware prices spiked.
- karl_gluck 6mo agoYou have said this in a few places throughout the thread. At this point, citation is needed. I work for a real business and switched from API billing to max+overflow. It saves money. It’s crazy not to. What are you talking about?
- well_ackshually 6mo agoIf your definition of "real businesses" is "Fortune 500, US based tech company with more money than sense or just happy to bleed VC money", sure, 99.999% of businesses are not real businesses. You may also have a very narrow view of how the world actually works, left as an exercise to the reader to figure out which one it is
- adastra22 6mo agoFortune 500 and VC money are disjoint sets.
- nimchimpsky 6mo ago[dead]
- cebert 6mo agoMy company currently uses the Anthropic Enterprise subscription plan, but we’ve been informed that’s going away in 2027 in favor of API billing. If businesses are using subscriptions, I don’t think they will for long.
- elnasca2 6mo agoYou mean the Team Plan? The Enterprise Plan has no usage contingent included.