The article fails to mention DeepSeek, Alibaba, Qwen, Xiaomi, MiMo, z.ai, or GLM. It's hard to take such an article seriously that doesn't do this. (Our monthly total spend is around $180 with a team of 6, about half technical; our biggest line items are for American models or subscriptions which we probably will be planning to get rid of.)
And then remarks like this:
Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft have all now transitioned customers from subscriptions to token-based pricing.
Huh? I use OpenAI via a subscription, as is anyone else using GPT-5.5-Pro who isn't a multimillionaire.
And then remarks like this:
Huh? I use OpenAI via a subscription, as is anyone else using GPT-5.5-Pro who isn't a multimillionaire.