A few enterprise customers I know are upgrading to the higher plan now that their limits have been nuked.

I imagine Anthropic is trying to see how many users they can push to higher tiers with these new squeezes.

I hate to say it but I imagine it will work.

It’s going to suck for me, because I had gotten used to ridiculously cheap tokens, but I guess the era of subsidized tokens is over.

I would guess that even now, they’re still subsidized. Just judging by how desperate these companies are to get ahead of each other

good reminder to me to stay in practice with manual coding for my side projects! claude is super convenient for them for now but if it goes it goes, I definitely don't want to get dependent on it. maybe the local models will improve in a year too.

Most real businesses are on API billing, not Max.

None of the companies I deal with (~40) are on the API. Some where, but that experiment lasted a month.

Until they go public, we are all just guessing.

CC has such egregious API subsidies that it’s hard to not to leverage it unless the license tells an enterprise otherwise. Love the subsidized pricing while it lasts.

> CC has such egregious API subsidies that it’s hard to not to leverage it unless the license tells an enterprise otherwise.

It's hard to tell, honestly - about half the HN population will tell you that all the token providers are running inference at a profit when using the API and only the subscriptions are subsidised, while the other half will tell you that everything, including both the API and the subscriptions, are subsidised (i.e. running at a loss).

Some days I really wish the timing had worked out for me to build a serious private inference server before hardware prices spiked.

What API subsidy? What are you talking about?

My company currently uses the Anthropic Enterprise subscription plan, but we’ve been informed that’s going away in 2027 in favor of API billing. If businesses are using subscriptions, I don’t think they will for long.

You mean the Team Plan? The Enterprise Plan has no usage contingent included.

If your definition of "real businesses" is "Fortune 500, US based tech company with more money than sense or just happy to bleed VC money", sure, 99.999% of businesses are not real businesses.

You may also have a very narrow view of how the world actually works, left as an exercise to the reader to figure out which one it is

Fortune 500 and VC money are disjoint sets.

You have said this in a few places throughout the thread. At this point, citation is needed.

I work for a real business and switched from API billing to max+overflow. It saves money. It’s crazy not to. What are you talking about?

I think they're at that stage where people know they want it so lack of a trial isn't a deal breaker per se.