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I know many, many engineers who are paying something like 2-5% (via subscription) of what their usage would cost if billed by API tokens. I know some down to a
by fastball 2mo ago
I know many, many engineers who are paying something like 2-5% (via subscription) of what their usage would cost if billed by API tokens.
I know some down to about 1% ($200 Max plan vs $20k in tokens per month)
- Certhas 2mo agoAnd I know many people that don't. That have a 20 or 100 dollar subscription for very bursty workflows with months where they barely use tokens. Not every subscriber is a full time SWE. In fact most professional SWEs will be on enterprise plans and thus not get subscriptions at all. I think it's very plausible that subscriptions are overall losing money. But we simply don't know.
- fastball 2mo agoClaude Code has enterprise subscriptions. No $200 max plan but you can buy $100 premium seats. (and if you are using per-token billing as an enterprise user without first maxing out a premium seat you are very silly)
- Certhas 2mo agoNot true. These seats are being phased out. Enterprise is now token only.