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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

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Aboutplants · 1790703271 · focus · HN ↗
“OpenAI's new Pro 500 plan offers OpenAI's highest usage allowance and comes with access to its new "Ultrafast" feature — it also costs $500 per month.
At the same time, OpenAI is also making its existing $200 Pro plan less appealing. In Codex and Work, $200 Pro subscribers will see their included usage decrease from 20x of what the company offers to Plus users, down to 10x of that same allowance. In ChatGPT, meanwhile, GPT-6 Pro message caps will decrease from 200 to 100 per week.”
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1. torginus · 1790704798 · focus · HN ↗
  I think that's by design - they're going to IPO soon so if they can get a significant percentage of users to switch from the $200 to the $500, they can 2.5x projected revenue.
  1. glub · 1790705290 · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah, that's not going to happen. They are more likely to lose a lot of customers, unless Anthropic does the same thing.
    But $200 is likely the ceiling of what people will pay for a subscription with usage based on vibes.
    latentsea · 1790705735 · focus · HN ↗
    For consumers they may as well buy GPUs and run local models. The cost is same over a year or two but infinite token usage, they get to keep the hardware, and local models continue to improve over that time too. I can't justify $200 on SOTA models for a personal subscription after Qwen3.8-27B. And it's only getting better from here.
    glub · 1790706359 · focus · HN ↗
    Yes, either US AI corps reduce the cost of their top tier personal subscriptions down to what people are already paying for other expensive personal apps (e.g. Adobe), so ~$50-100, or open weights are going to eat their lunch very quickly. We're not there yet, as current hardware doesn't allow you to do things like multiple parallel agents, but we'll get there soon enough.
    $500 for the old $200 is definitely a fumble.
    latentsea · 1790707446 · focus · HN ↗
    I have multiple GPUs now as a way to solve that.
    rrvsh · 1790728594 · focus · HN ↗
    Surely you realize how rare the ability to do this is
    latentsea · 1790738023 · focus · HN ↗
    I do not. I had 1 GPU and I had an expensive subscription. I simply cancelled it, and purchased a second figuring if I was going to spend the money anyway I'd rather have something to show for it at the end of the day. I'm not unique or special in my capability to do this. I figure I may as well purchase at least one GPU per year equivalent to what I would have spent on SOTA model subscriptions for that given year.

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