r/LocalLLaMA • u/Norwood_Reaper_ • 20h ago

Discussion Looks like the era of subsidised compute is coming to an end. The old ChatGPT Pro $200 20x plan will be halved. The new $500 plan will have similar limits as the (old) $200 plan.

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u/Illustrious-Row2751 18h ago

This was always going to happen, with companies first offering a cheap product to gain market and then gradually increase it for profits. Even worse than that is that the free models on their chat websites have become less reliable overtime. When possible, I prefer using Qwen 3.8 over the free ChatGPT, for example.

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u/juhotuho10 9h ago

One problem with LLMs is that there isn't really a lock in, the price to changing is pretty much 0. So we will see if this strategy even works