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- the bottom line is that a.i is getting more and more expensive and they have excuses for that. just last week trae.ai reduced its plan credits from 400$ to 100$by ls1911
- We stole all your work, just subscribe to get it back... now at $500/month.by dudewhocodes
- to be honest wasn't much surprised cause of the current situation like frontier models being so expensive and the models like opus consuming way much more tokens you just can't justify any of that. this token math is just so damned right now :(by rearview
- I'm waiting for the ProMaxUltra+by drywater2
- If it's unlimited that would be tempting. But that will never happen and if it does "unlimited" would not beby ryandetzel
- Cloud agents in Codex are quite poor solution compared to Claude Code, you are forced to use your own computer, which is not the desired setup for anyone with a standard laptop not suitable for doing lots of work in parallel.
So I would still prefer to spend some dollars in Anthropic or even Cursor solutions, which work much better as cloud dev envs.
- Related ongoing thread:
Ask HN: How do you feel about the new $500 OpenAI subscription? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49838409 - Sept 2026 (8 comments)
by dang - I wonder what's the ceiling for these plans' prices. At some point, it becomes a non-negligible fraction of the salary for the employee, especially in non-US employment markets.by darkamaul