I wonder what's the ceiling for these plans' prices.
At some point, it becomes a non-negligible fraction of the salary for the employee, especially in non-US employment markets.
brianwawok 50 minutes ago [-]
A lot depends on how good open source models do. I know I can buy a 20k rig or whatever to get model X. If someone wants to charge me 3k a month to write code I just buy the hardware.
add-sub-mul-div 33 minutes ago [-]
Once people become fully dependent the ceiling will be whatever they want it to be.
cyanydeez 60 minutes ago [-]
Its cute you tgink youll be the one leveraging AI.
aeonfox 56 minutes ago [-]
> tgink
A token misfired
cyanydeez 8 minutes ago [-]
Sorry, asked copilotto think forme.
fullstackwife 6 hours ago [-]
Cloud agents in Codex are quite poor solution compared to Claude Code, you are forced to use your own computer, which is not the desired setup for anyone with a standard laptop not suitable for doing lots of work in parallel.
So I would still prefer to spend some dollars in Anthropic or even Cursor solutions, which work much better as cloud dev envs.
ryandetzel 11 hours ago [-]
If it's unlimited that would be tempting. But that will never happen and if it does "unlimited" would not be
sejje 8 hours ago [-]
Particularly in this situation, it cannot be unlimited. A command to one agent could scale into a whole datacenter very quickly.
It can feel unlimited for many use cases, probably. But I doubt it can, let's say, 3D model things in blender on 3 different computers for 24/7. And hey, why not 30 things? 300? If you're just watching them, it's easy to get ridiculous.
Someone1234 8 hours ago [-]
I understand your point; but I disagree - Unlimited is possible.
It gets into a "define unlimited" discussion. You could give "unlimited" usage, but still "limit" both concurrency and throttle speed. Even if you run 24/7, they still have knobs they can twist.
sejje 7 hours ago [-]
Fair enough, but you're kind of changing the parameters.
The limiting thing now is total tokens, so unlimited would mean infinite tokens.
And it's not hard to spin up to infinite tokens, one agent and one command can orchestrate it.
rearview 14 hours ago [-]
to be honest wasn't much surprised cause of the current situation like frontier models being so expensive and the models like opus consuming way much more tokens you just can't justify any of that. this token math is just so damned right now :(
dudewhocodes 14 hours ago [-]
We stole all your work, just subscribe to get it back... now at $500/month.
moomoo11 5 hours ago [-]
tired take
ls1911 15 hours ago [-]
the bottom line is that a.i is getting more and more expensive and they have excuses for that.
just last week trae.ai reduced its plan credits from 400$ to 100$
sejje 8 hours ago [-]
Inference for the same level of intelligence is getting cheaper. Frontier intelligence keeps finding ways to get more expensive, yes.
But gpt-6-sol, for instance, dropped price for the same level of intelligence. That will keep happening, and someday we'll have basically-free sol. And hopefully by then, very cheap astra.
But some new wild thing will be very expensive.
I'm sure I'll figure out how to use the new one, but I would be extremely happy with near-free Astra.
zeroonetwothree 14 minutes ago [-]
Sol6 is clearly worse than 5.6. Have you tried using it? And Astra is more expensive.
Ask HN: How do you feel about the new $500 OpenAI subscription? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49838409 - Sept 2026 (8 comments)
A token misfired
So I would still prefer to spend some dollars in Anthropic or even Cursor solutions, which work much better as cloud dev envs.
It can feel unlimited for many use cases, probably. But I doubt it can, let's say, 3D model things in blender on 3 different computers for 24/7. And hey, why not 30 things? 300? If you're just watching them, it's easy to get ridiculous.
It gets into a "define unlimited" discussion. You could give "unlimited" usage, but still "limit" both concurrency and throttle speed. Even if you run 24/7, they still have knobs they can twist.
The limiting thing now is total tokens, so unlimited would mean infinite tokens.
And it's not hard to spin up to infinite tokens, one agent and one command can orchestrate it.
But gpt-6-sol, for instance, dropped price for the same level of intelligence. That will keep happening, and someday we'll have basically-free sol. And hopefully by then, very cheap astra.
But some new wild thing will be very expensive.
I'm sure I'll figure out how to use the new one, but I would be extremely happy with near-free Astra.