They are changing the pricing plans to move away from the subscription model to a metered model. Beause operating at a loss is not a long term goal. People have no idea what July is going to be like, when MS changes Copilot to metered in June it’s going to be bad. I checked the usage for my companies plan yesterday and we are going to be paying more. At least 2x. Good luck to the companies that are burning tokens as part of their business plan. Either they get massive bills and go broke, or lose access to Ai after 5 days.
Yeah on the one hand I agree with you, for example Claude Enterprise plans are going to lose the subscription option next time they annually renew, which for us isn’t for a while yet. On the other hand, the rate that new models are coming out is crazy and prices aren’t going up, the result being that every month we’re paying less and less per unit of work done. Sonnet 4.6 is as good as Opus 4.5 was but 1/3 cheaper. More and more companies outside the big 3 are becoming realistic contenders. I think if Anthropic start making pay their obviously over inflated API prices they’ll just lose a ton of customers to cheaper inference providers. Currently I use Claude Code purely because it’s the only harness you’re allowed to use on the cheap subscription plan, as soon as that plan goes away I’d jump to a different company’s plan, and if they all go away then I’d at least use a better harness (e.g. Pi) and a cheaper inference provider (e.g. DeepSeek). Meanwhile open source models are getting better and better and running our own inference farm is quite viable too
They are changing the pricing plans to move away from the subscription model to a metered model. Beause operating at a loss is not a long term goal. People have no idea what July is going to be like, when MS changes Copilot to metered in June it’s going to be bad. I checked the usage for my companies plan yesterday and we are going to be paying more. At least 2x. Good luck to the companies that are burning tokens as part of their business plan. Either they get massive bills and go broke, or lose access to Ai after 5 days.
Yeah on the one hand I agree with you, for example Claude Enterprise plans are going to lose the subscription option next time they annually renew, which for us isn’t for a while yet. On the other hand, the rate that new models are coming out is crazy and prices aren’t going up, the result being that every month we’re paying less and less per unit of work done. Sonnet 4.6 is as good as Opus 4.5 was but 1/3 cheaper. More and more companies outside the big 3 are becoming realistic contenders. I think if Anthropic start making pay their obviously over inflated API prices they’ll just lose a ton of customers to cheaper inference providers. Currently I use Claude Code purely because it’s the only harness you’re allowed to use on the cheap subscription plan, as soon as that plan goes away I’d jump to a different company’s plan, and if they all go away then I’d at least use a better harness (e.g. Pi) and a cheaper inference provider (e.g. DeepSeek). Meanwhile open source models are getting better and better and running our own inference farm is quite viable too
Copilot premium license is switching to metered next month? Oh wait are you talking about GitHub copilot?