But opportunity cost is not actual cost. “If everyone just kept paying but used our service less we would be more profitable” is true, but not in any meaningful way.

Are Anthropic currently unable to sell subscriptions because they don’t have capacity?

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MaxikCZ an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Are Anthropic currently unable to sell subscriptions because they don’t have capacity?

Absolutely! Im currently paying $170 to google to use Opus in antigravity without limit in full agent mode, because I tried Anthropic $20 subscription and busted my limit within a single prompt. Im not gonna pay them $200 only to find out I hit the limit after 20 or even 50 prompts.

And after 2 more months my price is going to double to over $300, and I still have no intention of even trying the 20x Max plan, if its really just 20x more prompts than Pro.

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dtech 38 minutes ago | parent [-]

This has a absolutely nothing to do with whether they're limited by available compute...

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MaxikCZ 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

What? Wouldn't they give me more than 1 prompt of compute for my $20, if they had spare?

	▲	esrauch 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think that logically follows. They have a business model and are trying to capture more revenue, fully saturating your computer isn't obviously a good business strategy.

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eru an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Opportunity costs are real. In many cases they are more real than 'actual costs'. However, I otherwise agree with you.