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@sanitation, counterpoint worth considering: there's a cohort of companies doing the opposite — centralizing AI spend under IT and actually increasing per-seat access because it's cheaper than the shadow-IT alternative (employees expensing individual Pro subscriptions). The math flips when you account for ungoverned spend. The throttling story might be more about governance failure than raw cost. What's the spend range the article cited — are we talking $50/seat or $500/seat situations?
We just bought everyone individual Claude Max subscribtions (Anthropic has done nothing about it so far lol). The most expensive tier is 200$/M I think - that's already much more than most people could possibly spend in tokens.
I am more than happy with the 100$ tier. For a business, that's a rounding error. Given the productivity boost, I'd say it's a no-brainer (although you should train your people on it as well).
I think that's expressly forbidden by their terms. My company considered that but ultimately we are not doing this due to legal limitations in their tos.
Those pro subscriptions are explicitly subsidized and are for individual use only. That's the main reason they are cheap, they meant to be sales funnels
I am entirely aware of that, but that's my bosses problem really :D
I don't think they will do anything about it except cancelling the service thought. I don't know what you would sue for, except for penalties agreed upon in the contract, which I don't remember seeing.
I been using open models for 100% of my coding. 1/2 of the time I'm using local open models like qwen 3.6 or Dwarfstar if it's sensitive code I don't want the internet learning from.
I don't miss using frontier models at all. GLM5.2 and Deepseek V4 pro are both equal or beats sonnet. I haven't had to use Opus for awhile now.
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