Reddit Pushback: OpenAI Users Subsidize Failed Experiments Like Atlas and Sora Via Price Hikes
dagerika · reddit · 2026-10-01
A Reddit post criticizing OpenAI's pricing strategy is resonating in the community:
- Core argument: customers are effectively subsidizing R&D for failed or half-baked experimental products like Atlas, Sora and the upcoming Dots, conditioning users to accept higher prices for unfinished services
- Calls out inference quality too: 20 tokens/s on GPT-6.1 Sol
- Slams offering Luna free on the web amid a compute crunch as self-inflicted, followed by excuses for worsening prices and limits
- Argues OpenAI should behave more like Anthropic instead of cloning every startup while squeezing paying users
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