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Comment by polarbear67 | Hacker News Reader

Why does everything AI-related have to be $20? Why can't there be tiers? OpenAI setting the standard of $20/m for every AI application is one of the worst things to ever happen.

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https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing/ - $0 / $20 / $200 / $25 (team) / custom enterprise pricing / on-demand API pricing

https://www.anthropic.com/pricing - $0 / $17 (if billed annually) / $20 (if billed monthly) / $100 / $25 (team) / custom enterprise pricing / on-demand API pricing

Sounds like tiers to me.

I should have specified less expensive tiers (below the $20 standard). A tier <= $10 would be great. Anything over $10 for casual use seems excessive (or at least from my perspective)

Tokens are expensive and nobody is making any money.

yep. this is the 2nd half of why the AI bubble is going to pop.

My guess is that’s the lowest price point that provides a modicum of profitability — LLMs are quite expensive to run, and even more so for providers like Ollama, which are entering the market and don’t have idle capacity.

Claude has $20, $100 and $200, ChatGPT $20, and $200, Google has $20 and $250. Those all have free tiers as well, and metered APIs. Grok has $30 and $300 it looks like, the list probably goes on and on.

I strongly recommend together.ai, which allows you to use a lot of different open source models and charges for usage, not a monthly fee.

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