> It is not a premium service, it simply is buying you more tokens.

The cheap plans are usually semi-unlimited the same way but not as powerful. This isn't simply a matter of buying more tokens.

> It was not that long ago that folks would be spending $100-200 on their cable service bundle.

Compared to OTA that's premium, but more relevantly if most cable buyers are getting a hypothetical $10 bundle then the $100 one is a premium bundle.

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infecto a day ago | parent [-]

Sorry still not sure what you’re going on about . The majority of LLM plans are simply a token purchase. The $200 account buys you nothing but tokens. It’s not a premium service, it’s simply more tokens. This is true for most of the companies out there.

The original comment was they are paying for a premium service. No they are paying for more tokens. You lot going on and on arguing over some small hill.

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Dylan16807 a day ago | parent [-]

The lower tier openai and google plans don't have access to the same models. Where are you seeing popular plans that are simply token purchases?

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infecto a day ago | parent [-]

I guess if you want to go that deep sure they sometimes offer early access, access to new agents/models but ultimately it’s a function of tokens. The selling point for most/all providers is x times the usage. You are upgrading for the token access.

Claude was the topic at hand and higher tiers buy you more tokens. I know some like Gemini bundle a ton of junk alongside the tokens but you really are still buying yourself more tokens. There is nothing premium in a $200 Claude account. You are buying more tokens, $100 is the same as $200 except token count. Hope that helps. ;)

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Dylan16807 17 hours ago | parent [-]

> $100 is the same as $200 except token count

But I was making an argument about the $10 plans, not the $100 plans.

Claude doesn't even go that low. Except the free plan which has a very reduced feature list.

Claude's $20 and $100 are pretty similar except tokens, that part is true. So they're a bit higher priced and more of the "it's just tokens" model. But the market as a whole is mostly selling a limited feature set down at lower price points. On average, getting up to the point where you have full access and are paying per-token is itself a premium jump.

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infecto 16 hours ago | parent [-]

You are standing on top of an ant hill and I still don’t fully understand your position. The original post was about the premium service Anthropic plans. There is no such thing, you are simply paying for more tokens. Hope that helps.

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Dylan16807 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Any $200/month AI plan is premium. Hope that helps.

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infecto 13 hours ago | parent [-]

I know why I typically don’t respond to your posts. So much said and I am still not sure your point. You have ignored the original point and gone off on a tangent.

It is not a premium service that deserves special care which was what the original commenter stated. It is a $200 account that buys you $400+ on tokens.

Hope that helps recenter this weird path we are following. :)

	▲	Dylan16807 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> gone off on a tangent What? What I just said was my one and only point from the very beginning. The price is so much higher than the median that that makes it premium and deserving of some special care. I understand your point of view here, and it's fine if you disagree with mine but it's weird if you don't at least understand my point by now. You saying my last comment is a tangent suggests you don't understand me. But it's a simple point and I'm not sure how to make it clearer. Does that help recenter?