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Willingness to pay. If people are willing to use Astra instead of Sol even if it costs twice as much, OpenAI has no need to make it cheaper. Prices only reflect
by yorwba 17d ago
Willingness to pay. If people are willing to use Astra instead of Sol even if it costs twice as much, OpenAI has no need to make it cheaper. Prices only reflect costs in a competitive market where customers actively seek out cheaper alternatives.
- cyanydeez 15d agoThere still intrinsic loss to the model.
- harsh_yadav21 14d agoWillingness to pay is definitely the primary driver, but you aren't just paying for raw compute, you are paying for queue priority and uptime reliability under heavy concurrent load.