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mchusmayesterday at 7:37 PM1 replyview on HN

I work with a lot of full-time devs, and it is very hard to go beyond the $200 max plan. If you use API credits, and I think the enterprise plan kind of forces you to do this, you can definitely incur this much, particularly if you're not using prompt caching and things like that.

But I and others in my company have very heavy usage. We only rarely, with parallel agentic processes, run out of the $200 a month plan.

And what do I mean by "hard"? I mean, it requires a lot of active thinking to think about how you can actively max it out. I'm sure there's some use cases where maybe it is not hard to do this, but in general, I find most devs can't even max out the $100 a month plan, because they haven't quite figured out how to leverage it to that degree yet.

(Again, if someone is using the API instead of subscription, I wouldn't be surprised to see $2,000 bills.)


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ebiesteryesterday at 8:09 PM

Business/Enterprise accounts are billed at $20/seat + API prices, not subscription prices. You can give them a monthly dollar quota or let them go unlimited, but they're not being subsidized like in team. And team can't get a 20x plan from what I can tell.