SemiAnalysis has calculated how big that gap really is. After testing subscription tiers from both OpenAI and Anthropic – running long-horizon coding and agentic tasks until weekly...
This is their strategy, they want people to use it, get hooked, replace parts of their day-to-day life with it, make it to difficult to “just go back”, then hit them with the actual bill.
They won’t go bankrupt unless their backers walk, and their backers are still quite confident in this strategy… because it’s working.
“A $200 ChatGPT Pro 20x subscription could cost as much as $14,000 in API pricing if fully utilized.”
What is being said is that in a month time you can burn through $14,000 worth of tokens. It does not show that that comsumption would cost ChatGPT the full $14,000.
So what they are doing here is planting the idea that a $200 subscription is actually worth $14,000. Which makes if very easy for them to make people switch to tokens or just increase the price of your subscription without losing too many customers.
It is generally thought that official token price is breaking even, at best. Maybe it is not even doing that. The worth of the AI usage has nothing to do with those costs and is likely much lower. So far there is very little done on understanding actual value of AI use though.
I am not saying you are wrong, just that the above statement can be correct at the same time.
Please do.
Use it all.
Bankrupt these shit companies and help burst the bubble
This is their strategy, they want people to use it, get hooked, replace parts of their day-to-day life with it, make it to difficult to “just go back”, then hit them with the actual bill.
They won’t go bankrupt unless their backers walk, and their backers are still quite confident in this strategy… because it’s working.
I’m thinking of getting a subscription and burning tokens out of spite.
But no one is going to be able to afford a $14,000 subscription for slop.
No, but if you get that number in everyones heads, there is much less resistance to, say a 100 EUR a month increase.
Yes, but what good is that if 100 USD more is still losing tons of money.
“A $200 ChatGPT Pro 20x subscription could cost as much as $14,000 in API pricing if fully utilized.”
What is being said is that in a month time you can burn through $14,000 worth of tokens. It does not show that that comsumption would cost ChatGPT the full $14,000.
So what they are doing here is planting the idea that a $200 subscription is actually worth $14,000. Which makes if very easy for them to make people switch to tokens or just increase the price of your subscription without losing too many customers.
It is generally thought that official token price is breaking even, at best. Maybe it is not even doing that. The worth of the AI usage has nothing to do with those costs and is likely much lower. So far there is very little done on understanding actual value of AI use though.
I am not saying you are wrong, just that the above statement can be correct at the same time.
companies can
what does a human employee cost per month?
Sounds like a trap. Big cruises are said to have buffets, but yet, they’re still floating.
Gov will bail them out and use our taxes to do it