What makes you think the API costs are "the true price" and anywhere near their inference costs? Also what percentage of users do you think actually maxes out their subscription?

I suspect they're subsidizing a lot less than people think.

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alwillis 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> I suspect they're subsidizing a lot less than people think.

Agreed.

	▲	edg5000 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We can look at openrouter GLM 5.2 prices I think to get a rough idea about the pure inference cost (with margin). They are probably running on simmilar hardware. Although scale helps Anthropic probably.