I think people are being too generous with these comparisons. Not defending Anthropic but at the same time they are releasing new features and adjusting cost at pretty record speed for a new industry. Uber/doordash were subsidizing cost for what felt like a decade. Anthropic and related companies are adjusting price within months.

To me the bigger takeaway is that these business are seeing massive volume in use and figuring out how to price the products accordingly.

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hdndjsbbs 6 hours ago | parent [-]

They have to speedrun boiling the frog because the capital expenditure is insane. Remains to be seen just how fast you can boil a frog before the frog notices

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infecto 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Disagree. Most businesses of size are going to enterprise agreements which are all on demand rates. Those rates have not been changing other than the underlying cost to the model API rates fluctuating. You could make argument they are secretly using that has the price lever.

With volume enterprises can already negotiate lower token rates. I don’t see a boiling the frog situation.

	▲	parliament32 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They will still need to increase costs for enterprise to be profitable, they're just going to be more greasy about it. Claude 5 will cost 20% more but not be 20% better, more shenanigans with "oh no we had a bug in our cache system :^)", or this gem from the current enterprise pricing page: "Opus 4.7 uses a new tokenizer... may use up to 35% more tokens for the same fixed text".