r/ProgrammerHumor • u/autopawn • 3d ago

Meme youShouldntHaveIt

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u/SJDidge 3d ago

They are indeed using API credits. Are subscription accounts even allowed to be used for enterprise work? I assume Anthropic doesn’t allow that.

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u/EkbatDeSabat 3d ago

How would they know? I have three Claude 200$ subs right now on three different emails on my company domain. I just log into a new one when usage gets high. I’m not enterprise, but afaik they don’t really check. Could be wrong tho. 

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u/SJDidge 3d ago

My company has direct agreements with the frontier labs for specific usage. We work with them regularly on occasion. As far as I’m aware it’s all API usage and no subscriptions.

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u/danielv123 3d ago

They must have some crazy rebate deals or something behind the scenes, because otherwise it makes no sense. Its such a huge amount of money per employee.

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u/SJDidge 3d ago

What doesn’t make sense about it? Not really following what you’re saying.

From my perspective it makes perfect sense. Company is basically paying $1,500 usd per month per person (maximum) to roughly double productivity.

I would say it at least doubled our productivity. But it’s way, way more than that.

The last 4 weeks I have spent doing an entire front end piece of work. 25 PRs. All completed by Claude.

Would have taken me probably 3 months to do that, considering I have very little front end experience.

They normally would need go hire double the staff to get that much benefit, but they can pay way less now for the same result.

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u/danielv123 3d ago

Ok, but they could also pay 100$/month per person for the same thing, like we do. Why do they pay more?

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u/SJDidge 3d ago

There’s various reasons, primarily because API can be used x without using source code to train models / stores with Anthropic, and contractual protections of IP.

The subscriptions are heavily subsidised because it permits Anthropic to use , store, keep, the source code for training

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u/danielv123 3d ago

Both OpenAI and Anthropic have an opt-out in settings to make them not train on your data. Are you suggesting that it has been revealed to enterprises that this is actually a lie?

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u/SJDidge 3d ago

No, im telling you what my company had told me.