You will start seriously worrying about coding AI bills within 6 months

You will start seriously worrying about coding AI bills within 6 months

Nope.

More open models ship everyday and are 80% cheaper for similar and sometimes better performance, depending on the task.

You can use Qwen-3 Coder (a 480 billion parameter model with 35 billion active per forward pass (8 out of 160 experts)) for $0.302/M input tokens $0.302/M output tokens via openrouter.

Claude 4 Sonnet is $3/M input tokens and $15/M output tokens.

Several utilities will let you use Claude Code to use these models at will.

	▲	gorbypark 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Where are you seeing those prices? Cheapest one I see (and it has horrible uptime/throughput numbers) is $0.40/$1.60, and it's more like $2/$2 on average.

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philomath_mn 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Why is that?

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throwawayoldie 2 days ago | parent [-]

Because at some point, Anthropic needs to stop hemorrhaging money and actually make some.

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fragmede 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Uber, founded in 2009 was finally profitable in 2023. That's a bit longer than 6 months.

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mvieira38 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Different situation. Uber's entire strategy was to "disrupt" the transportation industry by undercutting everyone, with the promise that eventually adoption (and monetization via data, advertising, etc.) would be large enough for fees not to rise so much as to push consumers and drivers into the established taxi industry. Anthropic, on the other hand, is a competitor brand in a brand-new industry, one with heavy reliance on capex and exploding employee salaries, for that matter.

	▲	fragmede 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Totally different than except for the fact that it shows that "money" is able to wait 14 years, which is 28x longer than 6 months.

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numbrss 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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theshrike79 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And when Anthropic raises the prices enough, people will jump ship.

That's why you don't pay the yearly license for anything at this point in time. Pay monthly and evaluate before each bill if there's something better out already.

	▲	nextworddev 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		and that jumping ship didn't happen IRL, cursor ARR jumped 50% after their pricing change.