alt Hacker NewsIt's not gonna stay that way. Token cost is being massively subsidized right now. Prices will have to start increasing at some point.
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Gigachad • yesterday at 10:30 PM
Seems like the real costs and numbers are very hidden right now. It’s all private companies and secret info how much anything costs and if anything is profitable.
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barrkel • today at 4:38 AM
You can run Qwen3 Coder today - on expensive hardware - but fairly cheaply on a token by token basis. It's no Opus, but you can get things done.
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This is hard to say definitively. The new Nvidia Vera Rubin chips are 35-50x more efficient on a FLOPS/ megawatt basis. TPU/ ASICS/ AMD chips are making similar less dramatic strides.
So a service ran at a loss now could be high margin on new chips in a year. We also don’t really know that they are losing money on the 200/ month subscriptions just that they are compute constrained.
If prices increase might be because of a supply crunch than due to unit economics.