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0 pointsEsophagus41mo ago0 comments

A few enterprise customers I know are upgrading to the higher plan now that their limits have been nuked.

I imagine Anthropic is trying to see how many users they can push to higher tiers with these new squeezes.

I hate to say it but I imagine it will work.

It’s going to suck for me, because I had gotten used to ridiculously cheap tokens, but I guess the era of subsidized tokens is over.

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chamomeal1mo ago

I would guess that even now, they’re still subsidized. Just judging by how desperate these companies are to get ahead of each other

zem1mo ago

good reminder to me to stay in practice with manual coding for my side projects! claude is super convenient for them for now but if it goes it goes, I definitely don't want to get dependent on it. maybe the local models will improve in a year too.

solenoid09371mo ago

Most real businesses are on API billing, not Max.

lelanthran1mo ago

None of the companies I deal with (~40) are on the API. Some where, but that experiment lasted a month.

Until they go public, we are all just guessing.

sroussey1mo ago

CC has such egregious API subsidies that it’s hard to not to leverage it unless the license tells an enterprise otherwise. Love the subsidized pricing while it lasts.

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cebert1mo ago

My company currently uses the Anthropic Enterprise subscription plan, but we’ve been informed that’s going away in 2027 in favor of API billing. If businesses are using subscriptions, I don’t think they will for long.

elnasca21mo ago

You mean the Team Plan? The Enterprise Plan has no usage contingent included.

well_ackshually1mo ago

If your definition of "real businesses" is "Fortune 500, US based tech company with more money than sense or just happy to bleed VC money", sure, 99.999% of businesses are not real businesses.

You may also have a very narrow view of how the world actually works, left as an exercise to the reader to figure out which one it is

adastra221mo ago

Fortune 500 and VC money are disjoint sets.

karl_gluck1mo ago

You have said this in a few places throughout the thread. At this point, citation is needed.

I work for a real business and switched from API billing to max+overflow. It saves money. It’s crazy not to. What are you talking about?

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