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Why doesn't your company just get each of them a 20€ subscription instead of paying per token?

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For compliance reasons, companies pay for the enterprise account, and the enterprise account uses API pricing.

... then they should understand the pricing commitment they're making doing that.

They do, that's why they tell employees not to use too many tokens

Compliance with what?

GDPR mostly. In general, the easiest way to get ZDR for the models was through the hyperscalers. Additionally they're a German company so it's probably about all the data and tools being hosted in the EU, which Anthropic direct don't provide.

Why does dev work need to comply with GDPR? Are devs handling real customer data?

I mean, they shouldn't be, but lots of orgs, particularly in Germany are very very sceptical of any kind of data retention.

Compliance is an industry term. I'll save you the trouble of looking it up:

> Company compliance is the practice of ensuring an organization adheres to external laws, government regulations, industry standards, and internal company policies

Well that is a great idea, and if I were management, I would give everyone a 240€ claude-giftcard-subscription that they can use privately on their private computers. There is however the danger that they would start using their private accounts to fill with company data (which potentially is against GDPR regulations - hence the amazon bedrock deployment).

Money is money. Why is it a GDPR risk for one bank account paying for your proposed use case of toy projects and not another? I don't see how that changes the trust relationship for the team to do the right thing.

If devs are exposed to GDPR risk then something is going wrong. As a dev, technically I have access to some of our prod data, but my AI doesn't.

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