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Comment by infecto

18 hours ago

You are simply a bit too entitled. It's not a premium product and honestly not that expensive in my opinion either (though that is going to depend on your location).

You are more than able to pay for API rates.

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siva7  13 hours ago

You may want to learn the difference between someone being able to pay API rates and someone willing to pay API rates. I'm sure many people on HN are able to pay API rates and almost all of them aren't willing to pay API rates. The providers know this hence why subscriptions exist. API is almost solely used by companies as almost no private person would be willing to pay that.

  • infecto  13 hours ago

    “You may want to learn” such choice way to introduce your position which is really not much of one.

    If you are going to come and complain about a $200 subscription that gives you $400 worth of API tokens there is only so much room to complain. Only so many lemons can be squeezed. Hope that was a helpful for you.

Dylan16807  12 hours ago

A normal person pays $0-10 for an AI plan, maybe double that for a business.

$200 is premium.

  • infecto  11 hours ago

    It is not a premium service, it simply is buying you more tokens. Those $200 gives you at least $400 in API cost tokens.

    Don't confused price with "premium service". It was not that long ago that folks would be spending $100-200 on their cable service bundle. You are buying a subsidized product when using the plan and the more you spend the more tokens you get, has nothing to do with being a premium service.

    • Dylan16807  9 hours ago

      > It is not a premium service, it simply is buying you more tokens.

      The cheap plans are usually semi-unlimited the same way but not as powerful. This isn't simply a matter of buying more tokens.

      > It was not that long ago that folks would be spending $100-200 on their cable service bundle.

      Compared to OTA that's premium, but more relevantly if most cable buyers are getting a hypothetical $10 bundle then the $100 one is a premium bundle.

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