Sonnet 4 API Pricing and Slow Pool

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We’re running into two issues:

  1. As per user agent usage has surged, we’ve seen a very large increase in our slow pool load. The slow pool was conceived years ago when people wanted to make 200 requests per month, not thousands.
  2. As models have started to get more work done (tool calls, code written) per request, their cost per request has gone up; Sonnet 4 costs us ~2.5x more per request than Sonnet 3.5 (and writes more code / does more ambitious tasks!).

To fix each of these, we’re currently planning on instituting the following in a few days:

  1. Sunsetting the slow pool EDIT: We’re going to rethink this.
  2. Pricing Sonnet 4 at API cost converted to requests included in the plan (i.e. $0.04 API cost = 1 requests)

We wanted to give you all a heads up and solicit feedback once more. Open to other suggestions as well!

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