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The price seems entirely reasonable. $200 is about 1-2 hours of a professional's time in the USA. It's in everyone's interest for the company to be a sustainable business.
This doesn't increase my salary and if you are consultant it reduces your billable hours. No thanks.
The argument of more compute power for this plan can be true, but this is also a pricing tactic known as the decoy effect or anchoring. Here's how it works: 1. A company introduces a high-priced option (the "decoy"), often not intended to be the best value for most customers. 2. This premium option makes the other plans seem like better deals in comparison, nudging customers toward the one the company actually wants…
Of course this breaks down once you have a competitor like Anthropic, serving similarly-priced Plan A and B for their equivalently powerful models; adding a more expensive decoy plan C doesn't help OpenAI when their plan B pricing is primarily compared against Anthropic's plan B .
From an API standpoint, it seems like enterprises are currently split between anthropic and ChatGPT and most are willing to use substitutes. For the consumer, ChatGPT is the clear favorite (better branding, better iPhone app)
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The reality is more like: The frothy american economy over the past 20 years has created an unnaturally large number of individuals and organizations with high net worth who don't actually engage in productive output. A product like ChatGPT Pro can exist in this world because it being incapable of consistent, net-positive productive output isn't actually a barrier to being worth $200/month if consistent net-positive…
> The macroeconomic climate of the next ~ten years is going to hit some people and companies like a truck. Who's to say the frothy American economy doesn't last another 50 years while the rest of the world keeps limping along?
After a few hours of $200 Pro usage, it's completely worth it. Having no limit on o1 usage is a game changer, where I felt so restricted before, the amount of intelligence at the palm of my hand UNLIMITED feels a bit scary.
OpenAI is racing against two clocks: the commoditization clock (how quickly open-source alternatives catch up) and the monetization clock (their need to generate substantial revenue to justify their valuation). The ultimate success of this strategy depends on what we might call the enterprise AI adoption curve - whether large organizations will prioritize the kind of integrated, reliable, and "safe" AI solutions Open…
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> The macroeconomic climate of the next ~ten years is going to hit some people and companies like a truck. Who's to say the frothy American economy doesn't last another 50 years while the rest of the world keeps limping along?
At the risk of putting too fine a point on it, I'd probably say China.
The main difficulty when pricing a monthly subscription for "unlimited" usage of a product is the 1% of power users who use have extreme use of the product that can kill any profit margins for the product as a whole. Pricing ChatGPT Pro at $200/mo filters it to only power users/enterprise, and given the cost of the GPT-o1 API, it wouldn't surprise me if those power users burn through $200 worth of compute very, very…
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That's not how pricing works. If o1-pro is 10% better than Claude, but you are a guy who makes $300,000 per year, but now can make $330,000 because o1-pro makes you more productive, then it makes sense to give Sam $2,400.
Yes. But also from the perspective of saving time. If it saves an additional 2 hours/month, and you make six figures, it's worth it. And the perspective of frustration as well. Business class is 4x the price of regular. definitely not 4x better. But it saves times + frustration.
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Yeah it's crazy to me you can't just 10x your price to 10x your usage (since you could kind of do this manually by creating more accounts). I would easily pay $200/month for 10x usage - especially now with MCP servers where Claude Desktop + vanilla VS Code is arguably more effective than Cursor/Windsurf.
Oh very intriguing! Could you please elaborate how you are using MCP servers with VS code for coding?
But other than that I basically just tell the model what I want to do and it does it, lol. I like the Claude Desktop App interface better than trying to do things in Cursor/Windsurf directly, I like the ability to organize prompts/conversations in terms of projects and easily include context. I also honestly just have a funny feeling that the Claude web app often performs better than the API responses I get from the IDEs.
I actually pay 166 Euros a month for Claude Teams. Five seats. And I only use one. For myself. Why do I pay so much? Because the normal paid version (20 USD a month) interrups the chats after a dozen questions and wants me to wait a few hours until I can use it again. But Teams plan gives me way more questions. But why do I pay that much? Because Claude in combination with the Projects feature, where I can upload two…
I bet you never get tired of being told LLMs are just statistical computational curiosities.