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by OrangeDelonge1 hours ago |
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upvoteby simonw1 hours ago|
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That doesn't seem to be the case. From what I've seen enterprise deals get API pricing now. Have you seen evidence that's not true?
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upvoteby roomey47 minutes ago|
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Hi Simon, nice article. The parent there may be making the same assumption I am, that large enterprise _never_ pays sticker price.

Also, to just color in the picture here, as I haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere, there is a very large Saas company at the moment who has given everyone unlimited tokens on Claude. And they have a dashboard showing who spends the most. So the "budget" went from about USD500 per per person (split between Claude and cursor) in Jan to... Well a soft limit of USD100k... Per month... Per person.

People can still see the top line sticker price on their spend, but honestly I can't believe that the Saas is paying that full price when the invoice comes in.

That said, there are some finance reports which are probably dropping soon where we will find out!

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upvoteby simonw41 minutes ago|
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> The parent there may be making the same assumption I am, that large enterprise _never_ pays sticker price.

I shared that assumption until yesterday, when I found out that it wasn't holding for LLM pricing from OpenAI and Anthropic. That's what inspired me to write this piece.

I think those token leaderboards are an obviously terrible idea and will go extinct very quickly now that people are paying attention to costs.

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upvoteby mvanbaak24 minutes ago|
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large enterprises dont pay openai or anthropic, they get this thing called copilot and get a nice price there. At least on this side of the pond (eu)
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upvoteby themgt1 hours ago|
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I do know of moderate-size companies deploying OSS LLMs on their own GPU clusters, for ownership/security/maybe cost reasons. I'm somewhat surprised F500 companies are apparently just handing over all their data to the model providers.

Could be fantastic for small shops while it lasts. The big guys have to pay 10x for precious tokens.

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upvoteby waisbrot1 hours ago|
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And "large" just means that AWS will assign an account manager to talk with you. I was at a start-up who spent $300k/year on AWS and that was enough to get special attention and discounts. Enterprise pricing is confusing.
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upvoteby apsurd1 hours ago|
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The point is that those a real prices real people are paying for real API usage. it's not made up.

your point is large players won't pay those prices at massive volume. ok

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upvoteby Anon109654 minutes ago|
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Claude is so in demand at the moment that there aren't really volume discounts. Anthropic sets the terms and you either accept them or get lost they have that much of a lead (mindshare/desirability wise).
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