I'm talking about the cost of labor.

If you pay someone $20,000 for labor, and they save 65 minutes worth of labor per day using a $200/mo Claude subscription, you are better off buying the Claude subscription.

I think if you (a company) pay someone for labor, your labor cannot use personal subscription and you have to pay considerably higher api prices.

Most companies don't provide a corporate cell phone and have no problems with answering emails from a personal account. Can't have it both ways.

You could it’s just against ToS.

But the specific numbers in my prior comments aren’t really relevant to my point. Adjust for whatever numbers you want.

But I think they are relevant because you compare two numbers and one is much lower.

I've done some napkin math and CC code makes me more efficient when I pay 200/ month, but it wouldn't if I had to pay api prices

Really? Are you using opus and letting it run for long periods? Curious as to what your workflow is.

The math is highly in favor of us using it at our company and we are paying API pricing. I don’t imagine there’s a lot of people using Claude without getting their money’s worth…?

Yes, recently I've been working on some research/ optimizatiom problem.

I would start claude in Yolo mode, tell it keep trying new ideas until it runs out of 1m context. (Every day I am giving it a hint to explore different directions as the sessions before)

Twice a day for a month, fits well into CC max plan.

I guess if I had to pay per token I would still use it but only for tasks where the value is clearer and immediate.

Who's gonna pay $20,000 for labor that can be done by anyone with a $200/mo subscription?

Nobody, but that doesn’t exist yet. Currently these solutions enhance the productivity of workers, but it can’t quite replace them.