Just cancelled a team of 10+ (small dev team) today. I know this is nothing to them or in the overall scheme of things, but I’ve sat around the internet, irl etc - saying how amazing Claude is… but yday/today we have engineers sat around doing nothing waiting for quotas, and it is unacceptable - I cancelled with Google over the same issue. This shitshow just happened to align with it being time to decide on whether to fork out c$3k to them tomorrow. While I would be okay with:
- Anthropic making an announcement that they have an issue.
- Or even that they are changing limits, and telling us by how much. They have:
- Done neither. This is a fundamental breach of trust for a professional tool… and it just goes to show that they can’t be trusted with professional work. I don’t know who they think their target market is - but if they think it is vibe coders ( zero hate to vibers - some amazing projects out there ) and students ( again, zero hate - I remember being a broke af student ), good luck with the $200+ a month. Opus is not the only SOTA - and we’re going to move to OAI instead. If they pull the plug… we are already shaping up to just pay per token from open source models on Vertex (currently, on our total team token usage, this is actually looking like it will be a decent cost saving for us). This is now actually our preference, as we can use OpenCode and just plug into any API we want, and we aren’t at the whims of abusive API pricing, or untrustworthy subscriptions - or, in an extreme… just rent some server racks and set up our own inference rig (given we’re all on the same timezone… this isn’t actually a huge issue for us, running 20x H100s would only cost us around $40 an hour (which versus engineers… isn’t that bad), while it would be more than a per token usage, worst case - it works for us. If their response is “pay the API” - mine is a big middle finger. You’re only as good as you are trustworthy - and you, Anthropic, don’t see to be trustworthy. Also - I hear you “Omg, Anthropic are making a loss! Look at the API pricing!!! You are getting 10x value.” - I would say to you: Then they need to be upfront about what we are paying for. Look at Vertex pricing. Massive models, with huge capability, are running for 10x less than Anthropic. That is a good proxy for the cost of compute right now. submitted by /u/Temporary-Mix8022
Originally posted by u/Temporary-Mix8022 on r/ClaudeCode
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