Posted by jnord 18 hours ago
> Anthropic is looking at approximately $500 in real compute cost for the heaviest users.
but $5 that I amortize over 7 years might end up being $1.7 maybe if I don't rapidly combust (supply chain risk)
Everyone else pays them at API prices
Aren't they losing money on the retail API pricing, too?
> ... comparisons to artificially low priced Chinese providers...
Yeah, no this article does not pass the sniff test.
No, they aren't, and probably neither is anyone else offering API pricing. And Anthropic's API margins may be higher than anyone else.
For example, DeepSeek released numbers showing that R1 was served at approximately "a cost profit margin of 545%" (meaning 82% of revenue is profit), see my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663852
Eh. We don't really know that, and the people saying that have an interest in the rest of the world believing it's true.
It’s worth it, but I know they aren’t making money on me. But, of course I’m marketing them constantly so…