Yuchen Jin argues the 20 dollars and 200 dollars per month chatbot pricing breaks for always-on agents because they can burn orders of magnitude more tokens, creating a pricing trap for OpenAI and Anthropic.
I’m pretty sure the $20/$200 subscription pricing was vibe-coded by OpenAI, then copied by Anthropic.
That pricing works for chatbots, not agents.
A 24/7 agent can burn through orders of magnitude more tokens than a user chatting with a chatbot.
Now they’re stuck. Neither
If your MAX 20x plan ran out of tokens unexpectedly early
Trying to figure out how we can improve /usage to give more info.
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