antirez: API pricing is Monopoly money — the only real metric is joules, and we can't see them
mitsuhiko · x · 2026-09-19
antirez argues that the money you would have paid via API versus your flat subscription plan is like Monopoly money; the only metric that reflects ground truth would be joules of energy consumed, but that's invisible to users. mitsuhiko agrees, saying he's repeatedly looked for a derivable metric to track in sessions as a proxy for true cost — and found nothing.
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