Why does everything AI-related have to be $20? Why can't there be tiers? OpenAI setting the standard of $20/m for every AI application is one of the worst things to ever happen.

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paxys 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing/ - $0 / $20 / $200 / $25 (team) / custom enterprise pricing / on-demand API pricing

https://www.anthropic.com/pricing - $0 / $17 (if billed annually) / $20 (if billed monthly) / $100 / $25 (team) / custom enterprise pricing / on-demand API pricing

Sounds like tiers to me.

	▲	computegabe 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		I should have specified less expensive tiers (below the $20 standard). A tier <= $10 would be great. Anything over $10 for casual use seems excessive (or at least from my perspective)

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colesantiago 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tokens are expensive and nobody is making any money.

	▲	senectus1 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		yep. this is the 2nd half of why the AI bubble is going to pop.

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thimabi 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My guess is that’s the lowest price point that provides a modicum of profitability — LLMs are quite expensive to run, and even more so for providers like Ollama, which are entering the market and don’t have idle capacity.

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furyofantares 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Claude has $20, $100 and $200, ChatGPT $20, and $200, Google has $20 and $250. Those all have free tiers as well, and metered APIs. Grok has $30 and $300 it looks like, the list probably goes on and on.

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joecot 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I strongly recommend together.ai, which allows you to use a lot of different open source models and charges for usage, not a monthly fee.