$200 AI Subscription Delivers $12.5K in Value: Subsidies Are Massive
maksym_andr · x · 2026-10-06
Citing SemiAnalysis, maksymandr notes heavy users can extract roughly $12.5K of API-equivalent value from a $200/month AI subscription, underscoring how heavily these consumer plans are subsidized.
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