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iandanforth ◴[25 Jun 25 13:37 UTC] No.44377207[source]▶
I love how fragmented Google's Gemini offerings are. I'm a Pro subscriber, but I now learn I should be a "Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise" user to get additional usage. I didn't even know that existed! As a run of the mill Google user I get a generous usage tier but paying them specifically for "Gemini" doesn't get me anything when it comes to "Gemini CLI". Delightful!
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__MatrixMan__ ◴[25 Jun 25 14:22 UTC] No.44377663[source]▶
Anthropic is the same. Unless it has changed within the last few months, you can subscribe to Claude but if you want to use Claude Code it'll come out of your "API usage" bucket which is billed separately than the subscription.

Some jerk has learned that we prefer CLI things and has come to the conclusion that we should therefore pay extra for them.

Workaround is to use their GUI with some MCPs but I dislike it because window navigation is just clunky compared to terminal multiplexer navigation.

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1. Workaccount2 ◴[25 Jun 25 14:35 UTC] No.44377834[source]▶
I think it is pretty clear that these $20/subs are loss leaders, and really only meant to get regular people to really start leaning on LLMs. Once they are hooked, we will see what the actual price of using so much compute is. I would imagine right now they are pricing their APIs either at cost or slightly below.
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2. ethbr1 ◴[25 Jun 25 15:49 UTC] No.44378660[source]▶
Or they're planning on the next wave of optimized hardware cutting inference costs.
3. stpedgwdgfhgdd ◴[25 Jun 25 15:55 UTC] No.44378722[source]▶
When using a single terminal Pro is good enough (even with a medium-large code base). When I started working with two terminals at two different issues at the same time, i’m reaching the credit limit.
4. sebzim4500 ◴[25 Jun 25 16:34 UTC] No.44379174[source]▶
I'm sure that there are power users who are using much more than $20 worth of compute, but there will also be many users who pay but barely use the service.
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5. upcoming-sesame ◴[25 Jun 25 18:24 UTC] No.44380389[source]▶
since its bundled with Google One storage, which most people (into Google's ecosystem) buy anyway, the price is actually less than 20
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6. dzhiurgis ◴[25 Jun 25 22:38 UTC] No.44382424[source]▶
Sam Altman said they use about same amount of power as an oven. So at $0.2/kWh thats about 100kWh/4kW=25 hours of compute or a little over an hour every workday.
7. eertami ◴[25 Jun 25 23:02 UTC] No.44382599{3}[source]▶
I would've thought "most" people would be firmly on the free tier, are there any stats to check how common it is? Personally I've had Gmail for 20 years, Android phones for 13 years, Home/chromecast devices but never thought about paying for Google One or any other services.
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8. 8n4vidtmkvmk ◴[26 Jun 25 04:06 UTC] No.44384100{4}[source]▶
Do you have a pixel and/or use photos? That's how your quota really fills up
9. upcoming-sesame ◴[26 Jun 25 07:24 UTC] No.44385035{4}[source]▶
If you're storing photos in Google Photos, the free quota gets used up quickly