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hirako2000

Imo the article is totally off the mark since it assumes users on average do not go over th 1M tokens per day.

Afaik openai doesn't enforce a daily quota even on the $20 plans unless the platform is under pressure.

Since I often consume 20M token per day, one can assume many would use far more than the 1M tokens assumed in the article's calculations.

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There's zero basis for assuming any of that. The most likely situation is a power law curve where the vast majority of users don't use it much at all and the top 10% of users account for 90% of the usage.

It is very likely that you are in the top 10% of users.

True. the article also has zero basis in its estimating the average usage from each tier's user base.

I somewhat doubt my usage is so close to the edge of the curve since I don't even pay for any plan. It could be that I'm very frugal with money and fat on consumption while most are more balanced, but 1M token per day in any case sounds slim for any user who pays for the service.

Meanwhile, I don’t use ChatGPT at all on a median day. I use it in occasional bursts when researching something.

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