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Paying $200 a month for $14,000 in use adds pressure on AI profitability

OpenAI and Anthropic’s roughly $200-a-month premium AI subscriptions can deliver API usage value worth thousands of dollars when converted by actual consumption, an analysis found. SemiAnalysis bought the plans and ran long coding tasks, estimating about $8,000 in API use for Anthropic and about $14,000 for OpenAI. Heavy token use by coding agents could increase costs for providers even as revenues grow, raising questions about sustainability.