TECH NEWS

Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5

https://media.wired.com/photos/6a4ece7dd12b964679cc8452/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/business_claude_price_increase.jpg

AI model developers have long offered consumers a simple deal: Use our technology for free through an online chatbot, or pay a monthly subscription to receive more usage, premium features, and advanced models. Anthropic is about to make that bargain a lot more complicated.

Starting on July 12 at 11:59PM PT, subscribers to Anthropic’s $20, $100, and $200-a-month plans will need to pay additional usage-based fees to access Claude Fable 5, the consumer version of the company’s highly capable Mythos 5 AI model. This appears to be the first time a frontier AI lab has gated a consumer AI model behind usage-based billing.

The rates will be the same as for developers using the company’s API: $10 for every million tokens sent to Claude, and $50 for every million tokens the model generates to answer your questions. So, if a subscriber to Anthropic’s $20-a-month plan sends a...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to wired.com. To see the full text click HERE

Read more