Are you talking about their $200 consumer plan? If you use 100% of the quota every week it's closer to $2000 at API rates.
They have never claimed that the API rates are the "real cost" of the compute spend.
> If you use 100% of the quota every week it's closer to $2000 at API rates.
I don't know where you got that from but the only time I maxed my $20 plan for a week I made the calculation that I had spend close to $200 in a single week. So maxing a $200 plan for a month should give you $8000 worth of token at API price. Obviously it's not $300k but it's still very far from the retail price.
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On the $200* consumer plan, according to "npx ccusage", I'm using $11,000 per month at API rates. Possibly significantly more, because I was previously using the $100 plan so that only reflects about 1 week of the $200 plan.
I was spending thousands of dollars a day in funny money (free promotional tokens from VCs) before switching to a paid subscription for convenience.
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