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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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$200/month subscription = $12,500 in tokens

I Pay $200. I Use $12,500 in Tokens. AI Costs Crashed 850x … · Mar 9, 2026

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.

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Subscription Arbitrage Is Dead: The $200 vs $12,500 Token Gap

At 23:50 · chapter starts 22:20

If you go in and you can eat a certain amount of food, buffets just calculate how much the average person is going to be able to consume. Well, now there's like a ton more food that you could be eating at the buffet. That food is extremely expensive. And you're almost taking it to other restaurants now, by taking your keys and going outside of the ecosystem.

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I Pay $200. I Use $12,500 in Tokens. AI…

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The 850x Token Price Crash That Changes Everything

I Pay $200. I Use $12,500 in Tokens. AI Costs Crashed 850x … · Mar 9, 2026 Technology

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.

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