Madisonc@madisonc

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$800 of subscriptions bought $49,919 of API 62x

Ran a stress test on subscriptions last month, maxed out 4 Max accounts and burned through 56.5B tokens just to see how far the plans actually go. Claude Code cost me $400 but delivered $32,310 worth of API value, which works out to 81x cheaper than paying per token. Codex was $400 for $17,609 of API, so 44x cheaper. Combined, that’s $800 in and $49,919 out, a $49,119 subscription subsidy. In effective pricing, both of these are even cheaper than Deepseek v4 Pro. They are insanely generous. I am impressed. Do they even make money?

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Madisonc@madisonc

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$800 of subscriptions bought $49,919 of API 62x

Ran a stress test on subscriptions last month, maxed out 4 Max accounts and burned through 56.5B tokens just to see how far the plans actually go. Claude Code cost me $400 but delivered $32,310 worth of API value, which works out to 81x cheaper than paying per token. Codex was $400 for $17,609 of API, so 44x cheaper. Combined, that’s $800 in and $49,919 out, a $49,119 subscription subsidy. In effective pricing, both of these are even cheaper than Deepseek v4 Pro. They are insanely generous. I am impressed. Do they even make money?

1mo