This is something I keep asking and can’t get a good answer for. You see some of the ads as “your $20 per month gets you $300 in tokens!” But that’s not sustainable unless it’s being subsidized by low use people.
But then for that matter, what does the value of a token mean? Is it the amount of money you would save as compared to having a human work? That doesn’t help the company providing the service.
Or maybe is supposed to cover the price of the compute to execute the query. That would be ideal, but I don’t think that value is correct.
I really think it’s “the first hit is free” approach and soon they’re going to start jacking prices up. I believe all of them are operating as loss leaders, just to try to get market share and even this few initial price increases are showing how much they’re bleeding money.
This is something I keep asking and can’t get a good answer for. You see some of the ads as “your $20 per month gets you $300 in tokens!” But that’s not sustainable unless it’s being subsidized by low use people.
But then for that matter, what does the value of a token mean? Is it the amount of money you would save as compared to having a human work? That doesn’t help the company providing the service.
Or maybe is supposed to cover the price of the compute to execute the query. That would be ideal, but I don’t think that value is correct.
I really think it’s “the first hit is free” approach and soon they’re going to start jacking prices up. I believe all of them are operating as loss leaders, just to try to get market share and even this few initial price increases are showing how much they’re bleeding money.