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systemvoltage 19 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Claude Fable 5

It's interesting that we are seeing a time when subscriptions are not preferred and usage-based billing is.

Pay-as-you go isn't a common thing in SaaS. For example, except for AWS SES, all email providers are bulk-subscription based.

esafak 19 days ago [–]

The point of SaaS was that the marginal cost (of supporting another user) was low. That does not apply to LLMs.

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