Comment by throwthrowuknow

6 hours ago

Only if you are paying per token on the API. If you are paying a fixed monthly fee then they lose money when you need to burn more tokens and they lose customers when you can’t solve your problems within that month and max out your session limits and end up with idle time which you use to check if the other providers have caught up or surpassed your current favourite.

Indeed, unlimited plan seems like the only way that makes sense to not have it be guaranteed to be abused by the provider