Entries for January 10, 2026
Anthropic pricing discourages agent-native development
Anthropic earlier last year announced this pricing scheme
$20 -> 1x usage
$100 -> 5x usage
$200 -> 1̶0̶x̶ 20x usage
As you can see, it's not growing linearly. This is classic Jensen "the more you buy, the more you save"
But here is the thing. You are not selling hardware like Jensen. You are selling a software service *through an API*. It's the worst possible pricing for the category of product. Long term, peop...
Anthropic's pricing is stupid
Anthropic earlier last year announced this pricing scheme