Comment by troyastorino
1 day ago
Tokens do have a clearly calculable intrinsic cost. There's the marginal cost of production (i.e. the inference cost) and the amortized R&D cost that goes into the model producing them.
Yes, value is hard to calculate, but luckily market pricing mechanisms exist exactly for this purpose. There isn't a better number to use than what people are willing to pay for them.
So he's saying that on an enterprise plan, he'd be spending $2,180.16. He's not paying that much, but enterprises are.
There’s a cost, certainly. I expect Anthropic knows. But we don’t know what that is.
Enterprises also use 200$ plans, they are not that stupid. They add a spill over API key for over usage.
OpenAI and Anthropic won't let them any more. Once you get above a certain size (I believe 150 seats) they push you onto the enterprise plans.
I don't believe you have the option to keep with the $200/month flat rate subscriptions any more. I'd be happy to be convinced otherwise.
(I dug into this a bit more and couldn't find anything in their consumer terms that say "you cannot use this personal account if your company has more than X people", so I imagine the pressure is more that your big company's purchasing department really doesn't like managing hundreds of individual subscriptions as opposed to a single, stable, predictable negotiated contract.)
The purchasing department _really_ doesn't like it, but it's the corpsec department that will really want to murder you for using "personal" accounts to interact with corporate codebases.