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1. GodelNumbering · 1790095446 · focus · HN ↗

   Finally that price drop

      Prices per 1M tokens     Claude Opus 5.5    Claude Opus 5
      Cache reads              $0.20              $0.50
      Input tokens             $4                 $5
      Output tokens            $20                $25
      Cache writes             $5                 $6.25
   
   

   Opus 5 is the model with highest spend on openrouter (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openrouter.ai&#x2F;rankings#task-spend" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openrouter.ai&#x2F;rankings#task-spend) and it seems plausible that Opus 5 is&#x2F;was the highest spend model in the world, and certainly Anthropic&#x27;s biggest moneymaker.

   If you are forced to reduce price despite raising capabilities, that certainly tells something about the market, and potentially about Anthropic future profitability too, since this model is their biggest topline contributor

   1. margorczynski · 1790100910 · focus · HN ↗

      All the anti-AI people constantly say that any moment now the prices will skyrocket and in the end human work will be cheaper compared to using AI.

      It doesn&#x27;t look like that&#x27;s happening, on the contrary the prices are falling especially when taking into account capabilities.

      1. hajile · 1790129570 · focus · HN ↗

         These companies are posting massive losses while also lowering prices. This sounds just like the Chinese bikeshare bubble where they were all taking massive losses in hopes that their competitor would go broke first.

         In the end, everyone lost and there are millions of bikes in landfills.

         If you&#x27;re interested in the bikeshare bubble, Asianometry did a video on it a while ago.

         <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FQrEDq8KPiU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FQrEDq8KPiU

         1. adventured · 1790135236 · focus · HN ↗

            Anthropic is heading toward $100 billion in annual sales, at the fastest pace of any company in world history. There isn&#x27;t a close second.

            The notion of comparing this to Chinese bikesharing is comically absurd.

            1. rvz · 1790145527 · focus · HN ↗

               &gt; Anthropic is heading toward $100 billion in annual sales, at the fastest pace of any company in world history. There isn&#x27;t a close second.

               &quot;Allegedly&quot;.

               Plus with a lot of accounting tricks, and this not being recurring to make their books look nice for the eventual IPO.

            2. filoeleven · 1790163257 · focus · HN ↗

               <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;isaiprofitable.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;isaiprofitable.com&#x2F;
         2. DonHopkins · 1790148657 · focus · HN ↗

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