Ep. 036 - $200 Buys $12,000 of Opus Tokens, We Bought Every Plan (AI Cloud TCO) | Max Kan, Jordan Nanos, Andrew Megalaa

Pay Anthropic $200 a month and you can pull $12,000 of Opus 5.5 tokens at API pricing. Max Kan (@maxkan) and Andrew Megalaa bought every plan, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, MiniMax, Moonshot, Z.ai, Cursor, and measured every token type to find the ceiling. The catch isn't subsidy. Anthropic still books 50 to 60% gross margins on these plans, which means the API itself is the price gouge.

0:00 Cold Open
1:03 Subsidies and Credits
5:23 Token Types and Cache
14:08 Model Value Charts
20:51 Test Methodology
26:54 Other Plans
31:26 Utilization and Limits
36:24 Token Efficiency
41:24 Open Models
44:22 Cyber and Capture

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