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They can if it is a way to get individuals hooked on it to then introduce it at their workplaces, who pay enterprise rates.

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Right, they can do it to sell enterprise plans, but they can't offer said plans to those enterprise customers indefinitely. So if your employer wants to spend $200/month on tokens, you're going to get however many tokens $200 buys you each month, not the order of magnitude more you can get with a consumer subscription.

That’s what I’m saying. Enterprise customers don’t use the subscription plan

Except that they do, we do.

A lot of startups pile up enormous amount of accounts, companies don't need the Enterprise Anthropic solution, they can just subscribe to many accounts and have their own staff KYC for each (1 codex, 1 claude, 1 google and so-on).

I imagine it’s also really trivial to build some kind of local “enterprise” proxy that gives you the same visibility in usage as the anthropic dashboard would give you. I use one for aggregating all my subs.

That will be clamped down on by Anthropic (and other providers) for the same reason they don't offer those plans to enterprise customers already.

Yes, but why not do that while it's available?

Startups do but do you know large enterprises that do?

We definitely pay enterprise api costs. Only way to get google vertex integration, and Enterprise is too sensitive to let all of their data leave their moat.

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