Users fear frontier AI price hikes

The perceived value gap between $20/month subscriptions and the "absurd" utility of models like Opus 4.7 suggests a looming market correction that could price out individual developers. High infrastructure costs remain the primary threat to long-term affordable access, with users fearing a shift toward business-only or high-priced pro tiers as model utility scales. Developers are increasingly wary of building dependencies on subsidized API credits that may vanish once market dominance is established by major labs.