99% of my max plan usage is non-interactive, and this post-June 15 pricing will far, far exceed what I can afford. I assume this applies to a great deal of us.
My understanding is that now with this workflow I will pay the same amount but get much less usage before getting to 100% for the week. How is that not bad?
If anything you might be an outlier if you do this and are actually producing something of reasonable value down the line.
They know if the value provided by subsidized usage is too low, they're literally burning dollars for nothing: people won't feel any great pain losing it one day and definitely won't convert.
Stuff like gas town is dead in the water
I assume that with API pricing it will run out in the first week and I might as well unsubscribe.
Well..........
That was the point of the subscription. It gave you extremely discounted pricing, in exchange for recurring revenue.
For a normal subscription user, they would get multiple X of what they would if paying on-demand usage.
It's one thing for Anthropic to ban subscription usage of OpenCode etc of their backend.
It's another thing to use their tools and still not get the full usage.
Claude's recent one 9 of uptime [1] might have something to do with it.
That is not sustainable for me. I understand that Anthropic can't subsidize all of us forever, but this will force me away from claude which is unfortunate. A number of the people I work with are similarly affected.
I’ve been happily single-homed on Anthropic for the last year, but I’ll be spending the next month rewriting projects off it to take advantage of better value elsewhere. I suspect that’s a one way door.