alt Hacker Newsimho those prices are artificially deflated to serve as a loss leader. Either subscription cost goes up or some other model such as advertising fills the gap.
I don't really understand the argument being made here. The best models are better, but they're not that much better. If I'm paying only 20% as much for 20% less performance, I can make up the 20% and have abundant cash or compute left over to spare.
The other thing that matters to me is the tooling. I could use Deepseek Harness with Claude but I'd rather support the same people that brought me DSH.
> imho those prices are artificially deflated to serve as a loss leader.
As a consumer I don’t care. The price I pay is how much it costs.
I’ve been hearing arguments that they could increase the price at any time. For years.
Instead the opposite has happened: A $20/month subscription has become more capable than it was 6 months or a year ago, by a huge margin. I can get so much done within a day of the $20/month subscription that it’s hard to believe it’s so cheap.