I don't think Anthropic wants a stable experience on their consumer subscription plans. It is just used for customer acquisition who will then ask their employer to pay for enterprise plan(assuming most employer care about data control) which is based on tokens.

Most coders don't pay for tokens themselves. It's just on reddit and HN you would think that everybody does.

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codebje 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I pay for my tokens for my own projects, at least when the ones Google seems willing to keep throwing at me for free don't cut it. I'd think that's not too uncommon, especially here where there's likely a high ratio of hobby coders (whether also professionals or otherwise).

	▲	YetAnotherNick an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I also pay but just the $20 plan and just for chats/lightweight personal site editing. I get unlimited token usage from my company. In my company the average claude token usage is something like $5k/month/employee. Most hobby coders don't spend anywhere close to it.

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cactusplant7374 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Dario said in an interview that they originally wanted to be an enterprise only company.

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andai 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What changed their mind?

	▲	gensym an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I would guess that it's hard to compete with Google without a consumer component. Most enterprises already have contracts and policies with Google, so anything driven from the top-down is likely to prefer Google. (And failing that, there was a real risk for OpenAI to be the default for enterprises.) To defeat that, you need to frontline employees the chance to experience better tooling and models which is where the subsidized subscriptions come in.