Comment by RealityVoid

> While $5000 is a lot, the people who rack up close or just over a thousand "API equivalent cost" are pretty common.

I think if you're not Anthropic and you don't have access to the actual data, then you can't say for sure. A bunch of anecdotes on terminally-AI people on twitter is not making a convincing case for me, IMO.

On the other hand, if similarly sized models cost much much cheaper than this, why, in the world, would Anthropic have much higher costs than that?

Also, counterpoint, maybe they want you to think that they have higher costs so you're more willing to actually pay for it?