The weirdest thing about Claude pricing is their 5X pricing plan is 5 times the cost of the previous plan.

Normally buying the bigger plan gives some sort of discount.

At Claude, it's just "5 times more usage 5 times more cost, there you go".

apetresc 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Those sorts of volume discounts are what you do when you're trying to incentivize more consumption. Anthropic already has more demand then they're logistically able to serve, at the moment (look at their uptime chart, it's barely even 1 9 of reliability). For them, 1 user consuming 5 units of compute is less attractive than 5 users consuming 1 unit.

They would probably implement _diminishing_-value pricing if pure pricing efficiency was their only concern.

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auggierose 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is not the plan they want you to buy. It is a pricing strategy to get you to buy the 20x plan.

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radley 12 hours ago | parent [-]

5x Max is the plan I use because the Pro plan limits out so quickly. I don't use Claude full-time, but I do need Claude Code, and I do prefer to use Opus for everything because it's focused and less chatty.

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auggierose 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure, I get it. For me a 2x Max would be ideal and usually enough. Now, guess why they are not offering that?

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prtmnth 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Same here. I'd love a 2x Max plan! More than enough usage for my needs.

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geggo98 25 minutes ago | parent [-]

Just make two plans and switch, when one of them is exhausted.