Are you talking about their $200 consumer plan? If you use 100% of the quota every week it's closer to $2000 at API rates.

They have never claimed that the API rates are the "real cost" of the compute spend.

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stymaar 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> If you use 100% of the quota every week it's closer to $2000 at API rates.

I don't know where you got that from but the only time I maxed my $20 plan for a week I made the calculation that I had spend close to $200 in a single week. So maxing a $200 plan for a month should give you $8000 worth of token at API price. Obviously it's not $300k but it's still very far from the retail price.

	▲	Aurornis 11 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> but the only time I maxed my $20 plan for a week I made the calculation that I had spend close to $200 in a single week. So maxing a $200 plan for a month should give you $8000 worth of token at API price. $200 of usage on a $20/mo plan is a 10X multiplier. The $200/month plan has 10X the usage of the $20/month plan. So $200 * 10X = $2000/month. I don't know how you got to $8000. Recent analysis by industry analysts like Semi Accurate have measured Sol 6.1 on the $200/month plan to be around $2000 of API equivalent use.
	▲	icedchai 12 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I get a LOT of mileage out of my $20 plan. It's at least $500+ a week at API rates. I sometimes wonder if there's something wrong with their billing system.

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sigseg1v an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On the $200* consumer plan, according to "npx ccusage", I'm using $11,000 per month at API rates. Possibly significantly more, because I was previously using the $100 plan so that only reflects about 1 week of the $200 plan.

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woah 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I was spending thousands of dollars a day in funny money (free promotional tokens from VCs) before switching to a paid subscription for convenience.