Yes, these are crazy expenses

Yes, these are crazy expenses. But not every user uses the subscription to ChatGPT as intensively. On average, ordinary users with a plus subscription pay for subscribers who squeeze all tokens out of the plan. Even among them, not everyone maximizes usage 24/7. Moreover, the prices for the API, which we are comparing here, include a wild margin. Everything is definitely going well in terms of profit. So, in fact, the picture of expenses per user for OpenAI and Anthropic looks slightly better than in the screenshot.