Comment by rldjbpin

> “Tokens” don’t have an intrisic cost or value.

i am pretty sure these services know what it truly costs them to serve you tokens, maybe not in realtime but at least periodically.

however, what they charge us is a constant exercise in price discovery. i agree with this sentiment in the sense that we don't have a stable sense of the cost. all of these comparisons are good for the moment, or at most the near future.

i believe that even the "all you can eat" approach with the max plans, regardless of their crazy pricing, is not sustainable only with the power users. if most of us gets this kind of value through our plans, surely it does not incentivise the service providers to continue pushing it. maybe they can regardless just to gain market share, but not forever.