Yes 200 as a business expense is really not that bad. But a hobby is hard to justify.

It's not gonna stay that way. Token cost is being massively subsidized right now. Prices will have to start increasing at some point.

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ianm218 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is hard to say definitively. The new Nvidia Vera Rubin chips are 35-50x more efficient on a FLOPS/ megawatt basis. TPU/ ASICS/ AMD chips are making similar less dramatic strides.

So a service ran at a loss now could be high margin on new chips in a year. We also don’t really know that they are losing money on the 200/ month subscriptions just that they are compute constrained.

If prices increase might be because of a supply crunch than due to unit economics.

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Gigachad an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Seems like the real costs and numbers are very hidden right now. It’s all private companies and secret info how much anything costs and if anything is profitable.

	▲	davikr 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Some say margins could be up to 90% on API inference. The house always wins?