1. a lot of people do 2. most of their revenue comes from api pricing

Those are both true, but I don't see how they are meant to rebut what I said.

Most people on plan use do NOT use up all their plan usage.

Users on API plans can still use Opus 5.5 which is a great model. If they want top of the line performance, they can pay more.

When another company puts out a model that undercuts Fable 5.2 on price at similar performance, Anthropic will put out Opus 6 and undercut them right back. That's how the wheel turns. This is just part of the cycle.

It rebuts what you said because your statement that "the cost per task matters relatively little" is not true in the slightest.

This might be true for a small portion of the user base, but it is not true as a statement of fact.

Most is doing the heavy lifting here. I am a power user. And I max 3 claude max subscriptions on opus 5.5 high and a single codex pro 5x for personal use.

What do you have them do?

Lots of coding. Basically building dashboards, answering questions, feature development. As such also a ton of testing and reviews.

Loops a more recent addition to my workflows, also where most of my spend goes. I basically set them a goal and let them run towards that for days on end. Optimize the performance of x. Security reviews and tests against our applications. Handle alert triage and propose fixes for production.

There is also quite a bit of tools development as a lot of these parallel workflows strain a single pc (rust is expensive compute wise to build), so i build tools on top of sandboxes, to allow it to use secrets in a safe way, deployment, staging and so forth.

Plan usage is available for companies with 2–150 seats. Above that, it's usage-based billing.

Does that mean bigger companies can only get API pricing?

That's my understanding, yes. But not sure what kind of deals larger clients can negotiate.

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9266767-what-is-the-t...

> Team plans support up to 150 seats. If your organization is on the Team plan and needs more than 150 seats, you can upgrade to the Enterprise plan.

https://claude.com/pricing

> Seat price + usage at API rates > US$20/seat/month, billed annually, 20 seat minimum. Usage cost scales with model and task.

Larger companies are being forced onto usage billing without subscriptions, so it's for sure relevant for a lot of developers.