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I Pay $200. I Use $12,500 in Tokens. AI Costs Crashed 850x and Subscriptions are Dead. | GMP EP03
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Mar 9, 2026
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Subscription Arbitrage Is Dead: The $200 vs $12,500 Token Gap
At 23:10 · chapter starts 22:20
$200/month subscription = $12,500 in tokens
Ben pays $200/month for a Claude Max subscription but consumes roughly 500 million tokens — equivalent to $12,500 at API pricing — demonstrating how broken subscription economics are.
The 850x Token Price Crash That Changes Everything
AI token costs have fallen 850 times since 2020. What cost $60 per million tokens with GPT-3 now costs 6 cents with open-source Llama 4. It's not just cheaper — the models are dramatically smarter. Every industry bottleneck unlocked by intelligence is now also being unlocked by near-zero cost.
