To be fair, unlimited is supposed to mean unlimited for a reasonable person. Like someone going to an “all you can eat buffet”. However those purchasing these would immediately set up proxy accounts and use them to serve all their communities, so that one unlimited account, becomes 100 or a 1000 actual users. So like someone going to an “all you can eat” and then sneaking in 5 other people under their trenchcoat.
If they actually do block this sort of account sharing, and it’s costing them money on just prolific single users, then I don’t know, their scaling is just shite. Like “unlimited” can’t ever be truly unlimited, as there should be a rate limit to prevent these sort of shenanigans. But if the account can’t make money with a reasonable rate limit (like 17280/day which would translate to 1 request per 5 sec) they are fuuuuuucked.
Yeah, poor wording on my part, proxy accounts being banned is totally fair, but a user using various apps and bots is the type of ‘Power User’ scenario I’d expect a unlimited plan to cover.
Agreed. Like how fucking difficult is it to see “It costs us X per query, what Y rate limit do we need to put on this account so that it doesn’t exceed 200$ per month?”. I bet the answer to is hilariously low rate limit that nobody would buy, so they decided to value below cost and pray people won’t actually use all those queries. Welp. And if they didn’t even put a rate limit, also lol. lmao.
“Anthropic Claude” does that. Their paying users hit rate limits all the time.
These users end up falling into a strange stockholm syndrome believing that if they shill the product harder VCs will give their beloved company more money to buy GPUs and the beloved company will definitely use those GPUs to serve their requests.
To be fair, unlimited is supposed to mean unlimited for a reasonable person. Like someone going to an “all you can eat buffet”. However those purchasing these would immediately set up proxy accounts and use them to serve all their communities, so that one unlimited account, becomes 100 or a 1000 actual users. So like someone going to an “all you can eat” and then sneaking in 5 other people under their trenchcoat.
If they actually do block this sort of account sharing, and it’s costing them money on just prolific single users, then I don’t know, their scaling is just shite. Like “unlimited” can’t ever be truly unlimited, as there should be a rate limit to prevent these sort of shenanigans. But if the account can’t make money with a reasonable rate limit (like 17280/day which would translate to 1 request per 5 sec) they are fuuuuuucked.
Yeah, poor wording on my part, proxy accounts being banned is totally fair, but a user using various apps and bots is the type of ‘Power User’ scenario I’d expect a unlimited plan to cover.
Agreed. Like how fucking difficult is it to see “It costs us X per query, what Y rate limit do we need to put on this account so that it doesn’t exceed 200$ per month?”. I bet the answer to is hilariously low rate limit that nobody would buy, so they decided to value below cost and pray people won’t actually use all those queries. Welp. And if they didn’t even put a rate limit, also lol. lmao.
“Anthropic Claude” does that. Their paying users hit rate limits all the time.
These users end up falling into a strange stockholm syndrome believing that if they shill the product harder VCs will give their beloved company more money to buy GPUs and the beloved company will definitely use those GPUs to serve their requests.