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A Research Preview of Codex

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511 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 16 May 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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bearjaws ◴[17 May 25 12:56 UTC] No.44013963[source]▶
I spend maybe $20 a month on Claude code, $200 a month is hard to swallow.

I don't understand why OAI puts their alpha release products under a $200 a month plan instead of just charging for tokens.

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1. Bjorkbat ◴[17 May 25 15:28 UTC] No.44015004[source]▶
My weird theory: the alpha releases are more expensive than people realize, and OpenAI can afford to launch money-losing alphas on Pro because few users have Pro accounts and the lose less money per Pro user.

If anyone could use Codex, you’d want to price the tokens at a rate where you don’t lose money, or at least not too much money. If you price the tokens too high, then not only are people not using Codex, but customers and investors alike begin to lose faith, they no longer “feel the AGI”.