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by epenn12 hours ago |
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upvoteby Esophagus410 hours ago|
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A few enterprise customers I know are upgrading to the higher plan now that their limits have been nuked.

I imagine Anthropic is trying to see how many users they can push to higher tiers with these new squeezes.

I hate to say it but I imagine it will work.

It’s going to suck for me, because I had gotten used to ridiculously cheap tokens, but I guess the era of subsidized tokens is over.

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upvoteby chamomeal1 hours ago|
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I would guess that even now, they’re still subsidized. Just judging by how desperate these companies are to get ahead of each other
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upvoteby solenoid09378 hours ago|
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Most real businesses are on API billing, not Max.
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upvoteby cebert2 hours ago|
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My 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.
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upvoteby lelanthran7 hours ago|
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None 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.

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upvoteby sroussey7 hours ago|
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CC 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.
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upvoteby lelanthran5 hours ago|
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> 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).

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upvoteby karl_gluck6 hours ago|
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You 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?

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upvoteby well_ackshually6 hours ago|
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If 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

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upvoteby darkstar_166 hours ago|
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I think they're at that stage where people know they want it so lack of a trial isn't a deal breaker per se.
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