At the same time the subscription will allow the same usage for hundreds of dollars a month.
Either Anthropic is absolutely hosing API users, massively subsidizing subscriptions, or a little bit of both.
"Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today, that subsidization appears to be even more aggressive, with that $200 plan able to consume about $5,000 in compute"
If 95% of people are using $100 of value a month, the whales may not be hurting them that badly.
I say "Harness" because it's just a web interface that uses `cluade -p` so I can run it in containers and remotely access it.
They are getting you hooked on cheaper tokens, then raking you in when you get scale. I'm sure Uber gets a break on list price, but I doubt they are anywhere near <150 employee subscription pricing.
But things to note:
1) the per user license fee is almost certainly waived.
2) if you look in teams, when you buy extra credit, you get a 30% discount if you buy in bulk.
Unless you default into enterprise from teams, you're almost certiantly not going to pay the list price for per token price
You can cap per user, but not having the rolling cap are you really just going to tell a member of your team “No AI for the rest of the month”
It’s a risky deal as it sets up now IMO.