Comment by satvikpendem
3 hours ago
LLMs are rapidly becoming commodities with open weight and Chinese models. Frontier providers won't be able to raise prices forever, indeed we already see evidence of decreased prices from such competition.
And ATMs can be free still, if you use a bank that refunds all worldwide ATM fees, such as Charles Schwab.
The commodity is not in the LLM but the tokens.
Anthropic's offerings are vertically differentiated. However from an economical stand point, it also be true that they are not the preferred option for many.