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This rumor is not demonstrably true. The subscription prices are competitive and for heavy users even cheap compared to API rates, but there is no evidence that they are structurally priced below cost.
A good way to think about it is finding how much it'd cost to buy and run a GPU that runs a model at around 100tk/s ("thinking" agents are not viable otherwise).

The figure mentioned in the video is not far off

Wait for the price fixing that will eventually come after the horse race. Just like internet, phone, tv, etc. The prices are universally increased in tandem.
Are you including capex when you say "cost"? Or are you just looking at inference costs?
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It is demonstrably true.

Grab gpt-oss-120b, run it continuously and see how far 20 dollars worth of that gets you. People definitely use much more than that in a month, not just power users but regular ones, and they're using models that are more expensive to run (plus the "cloud" markup).

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Okay then provide a link to a Dropbox PDF or official documentation “demonstrating” the premise is “untrue” please. Or admit you’re blinded by faith. Or financially interested in the public believing in a hypothetical like your second sentence.

In short, citation needed or shens bruh.

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