Comment by mapontosevenths
12 hours ago
> First of all, only the $200 plan got a cut.
The original plan doesn't exist anymore. To get the same usage you now need a $500/month plan. The new plan that costs $200 is different in every way that counts. It was actually a 150% price increase for people who want or need what the old plan used to provide.
Don't get me wrong, I genuinely LIKE OpenAI. It's probably worth it even at the new price. I just hate the rhetoric designed to Goodhart past the math.
> the models have gotten cheaper in the meanwhile (like this very announcement).
That is not good news for plan users. Plan users now get less of something that also has less worth to begin with. It would only be good news if they got more of it.
For example, if I buy the "unlimited car wash" package for $19.99/month and the car wash lowers the price per wash from $10 to $1 my subscription becomes less valuable, not more. The breakeven has moved, so I now need to wash my car more than 20 times before the package is justified.
If the car wash then increased the price to $50/month would it be wise for me to keep the package? Would lowering the price per wash make the package more valuable to me somehow? No, it would do the opposite.
> It was actually a 150% price increase for people who want or need what the old plan used to provide.
I’m not sure I see how. Subsidy got cut by half. But in the meantime 6.1 came out which uses 25% fewer tokens than 5.6 and costs 1/3 as much per task.
So for 1/2 the budget you use to have with 5.6 on the old plan, you can do more with 6.1. I don’t see that as a problem.