OAI really trying to push folks to either the ad infested tier for gen chat (ChatGPT Go) or Pro ($100/month) for code.
I guess the $20 Plus plan is the red-headed step child now.
Meanwhile, Z.ai coder is what…$9/month? Hmmm.
I don’t have a local rig powerful enough to natively run a good coder (Qwen 3 next), but “I am altering the deal, pray I do not alter it any further” is THE perfect use case for running your shit locally.
PS: It looks like Pro and Plus tiers have gone up a smidge too? Eg: last I checked they were $20 and $100; they now show $30 and $155. I cancelled my account so OAI gifted me a free month (lol) but seriously…fuck that.
Absolutely true. If I had to pull a number out of thin air, I’d say they were still probably under-charging what it actually costs them to run these things by an order of magnitude or two. So right now, Codex pro costs $150…but in a year or two? $300-400 or even $500? I can see them slowly ratcheting it up. It’s the same old story we’ve seen played out before (eg: Uber, Spotify, Netflix etc).
Doesn’t mean it’s one we should particularly want to see repeat tho.
Like you, I like the notion of mixing and matching local agents for grunt work and off-loading the thinking to API or SOTA. I hadn’t heard of ECA - that looks like it’s right up my alley. Thanks for that