$1000/mo for guaranteed functionality >= Opus 4.6 at its peak? Yes, I'd probably grumble a bit and then whip out the credit card.

I'm not a heavy LLM user, and I've never come anywhere the $200/month plan limits I'm already subscribed to. But when I do use it, I want the smartest, most relentless model available, operating at the highest performance level possible.

Charge what it takes to deliver that, and I'll probably pay it. But you can damned well run your A/B tests on somebody else.