Thanks romshark for publishing my post here :) I'm the original writer so I'll try to answer this question from my perspective. Agree, price and cost do come a

Thanks romshark for publishing my post here :) I'm the original writer so I'll try to answer this question from my perspective. Agree, price and cost do come apart, and chat and API are quite different products with different dynamics. That's why the piece also uses a serving-cost estimate rather than raw API list price - the real number sits somewhere between the SemiAnalysis figure and hosting-cost estimates, and it's still 10x-plus what we pay for a subscription, depending on usage of course. Usage is where it gets more concrete, margins reportedly go underwater past roughly 11% of the plan limit, and around 5.7% on the top tier. So it's only a subsidy for the people actually hammering it.