Comment by vikramkr
4 days ago
I doubt there's any sort of criminal behavior there - the model is anthropic's up and anthropic probably charges a very expensive license fee that's the same for all of them, and their cogs on compute aren't going to be wildly different, so the main drivers of the cost are roughly the same and they're all offering customers the same end product so the prices would likely also be similar in the end
Requiring the exact same product to be set at a specific price across providers would not be criminal behavior, lol
It is breaking competition.
Would you like all products everywhere be priced like their producers want?
You seem terribly confused. Manufacturers are almost always able to set prices. That is not anti-competitive because it does not imply they are colluding with their competition...
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The competition is between openai and anthropic, if there are price agreements between them that's absolutely price fixing. Or if there's collusion between the cloud providers to inflate compute. I would expect Amazon and gcp to both pay about the same in license fees to anthropic for their models though because they're paying for the same thing. If I buy an apple for a dollar at one store and an apple for a dollar at another store - maybe there's price fixing, or maybe that's just the cost of apples at the moment.
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Do you really think there is nothing someone could do to make it a fraction of a percentage cheaper to serve like having access to cheaper electricity or a more mature cloud management software. Even saving a fraction of a penny on the prices can make a different due to how much volume people are paying for.