Robin Bilgil(@RBilgil):There is actually every incentive for labs to let you use their subscription in other products Here's the thing: the alternative is not that OpenAI sells Astra at 20x the cost via API pricing, but that others make do with Luna, Kimi and GLM which are 90% as good for most things So in the first case OpenAI gets $200/month, or even $500/month now. And in the 2nd case they might get nothing

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Robin Bilgil@RBilgil

2026.09.30 13:21

There is actually every incentive for labs to let you use their subscription in other products Here's the thing: the alternative is not that OpenAI sells Astra at 20x the cost via API pricing, but that others make do with Luna, Kimi and GLM which are 90% as good for most things So in the first case OpenAI gets $200/month, or even $500/month now. And in the 2nd case they might get nothing