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Comment by amluto

6 hours ago

Now compare the monthly plans for business users who want the CLI agent but who don’t want the models trained on their data.

OpenAI: no big deal — sign up, pick your number of seats, and you’re all set.

Anthropic: also no big deal but there’s an obnoxious minimum purchase.

Google: first you have to try to figure out what the product is called. Then you need to figure out how to set the correct IAM rules. Then you have to sign up and pay for it. Maybe you succeed. Maybe you give up after an hour or two of cursing. Gemini is, of course, completely unable to help. (OpenAI clearly has not trained their models on how to operate their tools. Google’s models hallucinate Google’s product offerings so outrageously that I’m not sure I could tell. I haven’t asked Claude about Claude Code.)

At least the monthly pricing is similar once you get over the hurdles.

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waffletower  6 hours ago

Well some are using Anthropic on AWS Bedrock which is a bit more like the Google paragraph. Perhaps a good thing that Nova models aren't competitive (and many here are asking "What's a Nova model?"). And remember, many businesses aren't flinching at IAM controls and are asking for data privacy contracts.

nl  5 hours ago

There's a reason Google model usage on OpenRouter is so high - it's easier to pay the OpenRouter tax than it is to figure out how to pay Gemini directly.

  • fumeux_fume  1 hour ago

    Google is a cloud provider so API usage is funneled thru GCP. It's the same for Microsoft and Amazon.

    • amluto  1 hour ago

      By that logic, G Suite should be funneled through GCP.

      Also, are you sure you meant to mention Microsoft? Microsoft has this Copilot thing that they will gladly sell you, with generally inoffensive commercial terms, through more channels than you can shake a stick at. Got a $4 GitHub for Teams subscription? Add $20 or so and you will be swimming in Copilot outputs, and all you have to do is check the checkbox.