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Out of curiosity, is it common to pay to use “AI” in 2025?

I have no desire to pay for any of these “products” even a little bit.

I was tempted to pay to get around rate-limits for Claude, until I found out that paying subscribers are also severely rate-limited.

you're the minority here

Given the number of paying subscribers versus total users of ChatGPT, this isn't the case.

I mean on hacker news