2026: $1,000/month

2027: $100/month

2028: $10/month

Just because the hardware and inference costs may decrease in the future doesn't mean prices will. The AI vendor market is the furthest thing from a competitive industry where there are limited barriers to entry and new market entrants exert downward pressure on prices and profit margins.

Every single company in this market is losing billions on this business, and the only way to make it back is to acquire paying customers at a loss and jack up prices later.

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wmf 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

Since Guardian Angel is an inference vendor [1] hopefully they will set sustainable prices from day one so they don't need to increase prices later.

[1] The announcement explains that they can't use APIs for privacy reasons.

	▲	KerrAvon 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They don't control that. Pricing is controlled by the question of when RAM is once again made of semiconductors instead of unobtainium.

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KerrAvon 29 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this is not how it's going to go if OpenAI and Anthropic get their way and the US outlaws use of open-weight models

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weinzierl an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Hopefully!