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Out of curiosity, how are you using it and for what?

Lots and lots of automation, along with long-running multi-instance headless tasks. My usage, which I was on the verge of increasing via a second Max plan, would cost 3 figures per day, rather than per month. I already know this because my initial tooling was prototyped against direct API usage, and that was the cost of my usage patterns.

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'm curious what you're doing so often and repeatedly that can't be done with more normal software. Or maybe write a good school, I've noticed Haiku+good instructions often matches Opus

Same. Lots of little tasks that add up over time. The economics might not be great for Anthropic, but the economics of this change definitely don’t work for me; I could build a home lab and recoup its cost in about three months for the same pricing. “Headless is expensive” is a weird tone to set given so many recent cc releases pushing for greater autonomy (agents view, auto mode).

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.

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