Things to keep in mind:

• Claude Design uses Opus 4.7, which is more expensive than earlier models.

• It's just Day 2; it's not a finished product. It's ridiculous how quickly Anthropic iterates.

• If you've been using Claude for a while, Design already knows your style and preferences. You'd have to start from scratch using a different AI design tool. I don’t doubt that'll pay dividends in the long run.

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miohtama 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They can iterate fast, because their devs and only their devs have access to the best Claude Code on the planet.

	▲	b212 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They iterate fast because they slap different names at the same thing they’ve been selling for years now.

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deadbabe 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It will never be cheaper than what it is today. Anthropic is heavily subsidizing.

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alwillis 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> It will never be cheaper than what it is today. Anthropic is heavily subsidizing.

We don't know that for sure—they've dropped prices before:

1. Claude 3 → Claude 3.5/3.7 generation (mid-2024 to early 2025): Haiku went from $0.25/$1.25 to $0.80/$4.00 per MTok — this was actually a price increase for Haiku, but Sonnet stayed flat at $3/$15 while delivering significantly better performance, effectively a price-per-capability reduction.

2. Claude 3/4 Opus → Claude Opus 4.5/4.6 (late 2025): This was the big one. Opus dropped from $15/$75 per MTok down to $5/$25 per MTok — a 67% reduction on input and output. This is the most significant explicit price cut Anthropic has made, delivering a far more capable model at one-third the price.

	▲	versteegen 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They're definitely not subsidizing API pricing, can't believe how prevalent that fallacy is on HN of all places. The question is how profitable Claude Code is. Your example 2 is real and major but your example 1 is ridiculous, almost any new model from any company is better at the same price, and how is increasing the price an example of decreasing prices?? BTW, Github Copilot is pricing Opus 4.7 at 2.5x the cost of Opus 4.6 at promotional pricing (so maybe it'll be 4-5x). But Github's request based pricing is insane, completely divorced from their actual costs (you can achieve 1+M tokens for $0.10 if you give it a large request), so I'd assume they're losing a lot of money.

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wahnfrieden 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Be glad it's not Day 200: Opus models are only getting more expensive to use.