Comment by epenn
17 hours ago
Hopefully the negative responses in that thread + the conversation here on HN might help them realize that totally removing Code access for Pro users isn't a good look.
And with no free trial period on top of that, nobody is going to want to pay $100+ just to check it out. I can't imagine the conversion rate of that test being positive.
A few enterprise customers I know are upgrading to the higher plan now that their limits have been nuked.
I imagine Anthropic is trying to see how many users they can push to higher tiers with these new squeezes.
I hate to say it but I imagine it will work.
It’s going to suck for me, because I had gotten used to ridiculously cheap tokens, but I guess the era of subsidized tokens is over.
I would guess that even now, they’re still subsidized. Just judging by how desperate these companies are to get ahead of each other
Most real businesses are on API billing, not Max.
My company currently uses the Anthropic Enterprise subscription plan, but we’ve been informed that’s going away in 2027 in favor of API billing. If businesses are using subscriptions, I don’t think they will for long.
None of the companies I deal with (~40) are on the API. Some where, but that experiment lasted a month.
Until they go public, we are all just guessing.
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You have said this in a few places throughout the thread. At this point, citation is needed.
I work for a real business and switched from API billing to max+overflow. It saves money. It’s crazy not to. What are you talking about?
If your definition of "real businesses" is "Fortune 500, US based tech company with more money than sense or just happy to bleed VC money", sure, 99.999% of businesses are not real businesses.
You may also have a very narrow view of how the world actually works, left as an exercise to the reader to figure out which one it is
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I think they're at that stage where people know they want it so lack of a trial isn't a deal breaker per se.