Well, that's the other side of it. If we say they are making a trade-off decision, that means that they are choosing not to sell to paying customers. Who are these paying customers that Anthropic is turning down? I haven't heard any headlines saying they've instituted token quotas or started putting potential new customers on a waiting list.

Instead what's happening is more or less the opposite of that. They've been trying to goose demand by cutting prices: https://www.cio.com/article/4225643/openai-anthropic-cut-ai-...