Early stage founder here. You have no idea how worth it $200/month is as a multiple on what compensation is required to fund good engineers. Absolutely the highest ROI thing I have done in the life of the company so far.
At this point, question is when does Amazon tell Anthropic to stop because it’s gotta be running up a huge bill. I don’t think they can continue offering the $200 plan for too long even with Amazon’s deep pocket.
Based on people around me and anecdotal evidence of when Claude struggles, a lot more than you think. I’ve done some analysis on personal use between Openrouter, Amp, Claude API and $200 subscription, I probably save around $40-50/day. And I am a “light” user. I don’t run things in parallel too much.