Here’s a Thought: Could the New Token-Based Pricing Plan Actually Be the Best Thing for Real Developers?

[yakovw]

@mrmachine

Did I miss an announcement about Auto no longer being free?

YES

@mrmachine

I think whoever (probably OpenAI) can take a chunk of advertising $$ away from Google will be willing to commoditise inference costs (e.g. GPT5 pricing) to protect their advertising revenue by keeping our attention on their models. E.g. OpenAI going after Google with people using ChatGPT instead of Google for “search”.

I’ve already talked about this, as you can see. The rest of what you wrote is indeed the problem, and that’s why I think the solution is an unlimited deal with different model companies.

Proposal: Truly Unlimited Ultra/Pro $200–$300 Plan Exclusively for OpenAI

You’re right, but in fact right now Sam’s policy, and OpenAI’s, is to offer such a subscription even though no other company, not Google, not Anthropic, not X.AI, offers unlimited. That means they have some reasoning behind it, so I think they will agree. You have to understand that they want developers to move over to them, and if there’s something they can offer that will get developers to switch from Anthropic, it’s worth it for them.