Stop paying API prices. Ditch enterprise plans. Get subsidized.

When you have no idea what the API is or what its use cases are.

Obviously, you cannot switch out the API for a Claude Code subscription in your app. But you can ditch Claude enterprise plan for your team and tell them to signup for Claude Max. Note: I spent $130k on Claude API in April creating a distillation dataset.

I don't understand why the large and even small companies, don't just host an LLM in house and have their people use something like Hermes or openCLAW? I saw some CTO had a $500,000,000 token bill because he forgot to set limits. I'm sure the smart one's are looking to host their own models.

The local models just aren’t as good

I run DeepSeek on my agent (which I know isn’t a local model) and this is my heaviest month and I’ll probably do like 6000 API requests and 1.2 billion tokens and ii might break $20. My point is it’s getting cheaper and cheaper. I think someone already said this but you can train them to fit your needs too. I set up a llama model a month or two ago and it sucked but I figured it had something to do with the M1 Air I put it in lol

Same reason I hate seeing pet projects and meaningless dashboards

That’s what I was thinking but it does run out pretty fast but not $8000 fast tho

Issue is most users who are in professional settings don’t want to be rate limited. Using services like Requesty could bring down your API cost because they switch their infra based on demand reducing your cost significantly.

Even better, use the team or business plans that behave essentially the same way

the math on enterprise plans vs subsidies never works out long term and we both know it. just another way to buy growth.

wait $200 for $8k worth of usage is actually wild. max plan been a sleeper this whole time

lol bro companies use api for their privacy go do research. API usage isn’t used for training and only retained for a period of 7 days

And they will just stop the subsidized plans. It's not a tough concept to grasp. API prices are insanely high, yes, but this is not the answer you think it is.

Well now AI is going to be crashed along with the rest of the market come Monday. Expect a lot of RED candles until Trump says fine we won’t ban Fable and Mythos. All part of the plan. Goes against every intention Trump said about being number 1

@grok what do you think about the price estimates

Enterprises need compliance measures that don't come on the $200 plans. Single sign on, faster "support". It's all b.s. but tell enterprises need to remain compliant. That's the opportunity cost.

For some reason I'm seeing this as the government is seeing that people are now able to code and create whatever they want and so now they're going to make it expensive for us to do that and slowly push it to only people that have a lot of money that will be able to code and create stuff. This might be a conspiracy but they social med social media plat in the last years, creators were making thousands of dollars with their content and now they only making hundreds of dollars or less and so the same will most likely happen.

If you’re posting this, you’re way behind and this is old news. You could run $20k on antigravity plan Opus 4.6. Catch up bish

No. They are not. That's not how that works.

Maybe if companies didn’t hire vibe coders, they would be able to save a lot of money

أعتقد أن هذا النموذج المدعوم يثير تساؤلات حول الاستدامة. ما الذي يحدث للمستخدمين عندما تتوقف هذه الدعومات؟ يجب أن نضع حماية المستهلك في الاعتبار.

Enterprise plans and consumer plans are not the same. You lose out on data privacy assurances, data usage for model training restrictions, compliance (SOC2), etc. There’s a cost to doing business in the enterprise.

The enterprise already has credits.