- Anthropic has changed the pricing model of the cloud.
- Now enterprise users will pay on the basis of usage.
- API discounts removed, plans become cheaper than fixed subscriptions.
- AI companies are now focusing on revenue.
AI Usage: Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had said that in the future, AI will become a basic service like electricity and water. People will not think much while using it and it will become such a utility, which people will buy from the meter like electricity and water. This statement of his now seems to be true. AI company Anthropic has changed the pricing of Claude. Now the company has started charging per-seat usage for enterprise users. Besides, the company has also removed the discount on API.
Now Anthropic will charge according to usage
The company’s new enterprise plans are cheaper than fixed subscriptions. This means that the company has made the plans cheaper, but now it will charge money according to usage. Earlier the company used to charge 40 to 200 dollars per month for many technical and business seats, but now 20 dollars is being charged for many such seats. Now users will have to pay according to monthly usage. Besides, 10-15 percent discount on API has also been removed.
What will be the impact on users?
With this decision of Anthropic, users will have to pay for AI as per their usage. The seat fee in the company’s plan means that the user will get access to the platform from it. After this he will have to pay money according to the token and this will be pre-payment. That means he will have to pay this money before using AI.
AI companies are looking towards revenue
For some time now, AI companies have been investing heavily in the development of AI. The expenses of these companies on other things including data center are skyrocketing, but their business has not been able to generate revenue yet. In such a situation, now companies are also focusing on earning money. For this, various steps are being taken like showing ads along with response.
Will AI become a basic service?
After this step of Anthropic, Altman’s words seem to be coming true in which he had said that AI will become a basic service and people will pay its bill on the basis of usage like electricity. What he meant to say was that in future, instead of paying a fixed price for AI service, people will pay according to the computing power they need.
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