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justsid • today at 2:45 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Okay but even with a 85% margin the true cost for 30 minutes of usage would be $2.25. At that cost $34 should last only 7.5 hours. I would imagine the average user uses more than that?


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csa • today at 1:36 PM

I think you would guess wrong.

The median user is using AI as a search engine, meme creator, and/or chatbot… at best.

The additional cost created by the subset of programmers using subscriptions rather than tokens/api can easily be categorized as a marketing expense.

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