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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by lunar_mycroft on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @07:59PM (#48287640)
Right, they can do it to sell enterprise plans, but they can't offer said plans to those enterprise customers indefinitely. So if your employer wants to spend $200/month on tokens, you're going to get however many tokens $200 buys you each month, not the order of magnitude more you can get with a consumer subscription.
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by wahnfrieden on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @09:36PM (#48288374)
That’s what I’m saying. Enterprise customers don’t use the subscription plan
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by addedGone on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @08:35AM (#48293302)
Except that they do, we do.

A lot of startups pile up enormous amount of accounts, companies don't need the Enterprise Anthropic solution, they can just subscribe to many accounts and have their own staff KYC for each (1 codex, 1 claude, 1 google and so-on).

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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by lunar_mycroft on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:29PM (#48296666)
That will be clamped down on by Anthropic (and other providers) for the same reason they don't offer those plans to enterprise customers already.
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by addedGone on Thursday May 28, 2026 @06:40AM (#48307109)
Yes, but why not do that while it's available?
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by Bnjoroge on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:53AM (#48295292)
I imagine it’s also really trivial to build some kind of local “enterprise” proxy that gives you the same visibility in usage as the anthropic dashboard would give you. I use one for aggregating all my subs.
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by ilikehurdles on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:01PM (#48297114)
We definitely pay enterprise api costs. Only way to get google vertex integration, and Enterprise is too sensitive to let all of their data leave their moat.
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by wahnfrieden on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:53PM (#48296991)
Startups do but do you know large enterprises that do?
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