Can’t say the names, and I’m sure I’ll get banned for this. Was at a private event in SF and spoke to multiple teams using anthropic. Mainly 50+ employees. Bill per engineer ranged from $5k all the way to $60k per month. Yes 1 CTO told me he spent 3 SWEs worth of tokens in Feb. I compared token usage and my $200 plan was right in the middle. Basically it is massively subsidised but there’s a catch, they nerfed how well models will run for Pro/Max users vs Enterprise customers. Two people could submit the same prompt to the same model but if they’re on CC Pro/Max vs enterprise API the models reasoning will be different… Turns out the strategy was to use the paid plan users to generate hype + interest on Twitter and LinkedIn so that enterprises would reach out to them for onboarding. It’s been wildly successful and that’s why we’re seeing significant degradation for Pro and Max users. We’ve basically done our job, which was to act as lead magnets for the big money. Now that that’s self-growing they’re nerfing the plans to offset costs and it’ll only get worse from here - unless there’s a major breakthrough. OpenAI is in the same boat, but looks like they’re going to eat some costs now that they’ve raised to try and win back some market share. Dec 2025-Feb2026 could genuinely have been the small window of opportunity to use the very best models at affordable prices. submitted by /u/MostOfYouAreIgnorant
Originally posted by u/MostOfYouAreIgnorant on r/ClaudeCode
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