핵심 요약
월 30억 토큰을 사용하는 상위 0.01% 헤비 유저이자 3개 사업체를 운영하는 작성자가 Claude에 대한 극심한 벤더 락인을 탈피하기 위해 $200 구독 플랜을 전격 취소했다. 과거 Fable 중단 사태와 최근의 제한 강화 등을 겪으며 단일 AI 의존 리스크를 체감했고, 저렴한 정액제가 주는 안일함에서 벗어나 시스템 자립도를 직접 검증하려는 시도다.
주요 포인트
- **단일 벤더 종속에 대한 위기감**: 과거 Fable 서비스 중단 사태처럼 단일 플랫폼에 올인할 경우 발생할 서비스 장애, 정책 변경, 가격 인상 리스크를 심각하게 인식함
- **비용 착시와 안일함 탈피**: 월 30억 토큰(API 기준 1만 달러 이상)을 200달러로 싸게 쓰면서 모델 다변화나 리스크 대비에 대해 질문 자체를 멈추게 된 문제를 경계함
- **현실화된 제약과 비용 인상**: 주간 사용 한도 축소 및 종량제 전환으로 대형 고객들의 청구 비용이 2~3배 증가하는 등 락인에 따른 리스크가 이미 가시화됨
- **탈(脫) Claude 자립 테스트**: 200달러 플랜 없이 3개 사업체를 직접 굴려보면서 어떤 시스템이 망가지는지 확인하고 의존성을 근본적으로 점검하기로 결정함
I have spent more than $10,000 just on claw this year between the subscriptions and the API. I was a top 0.01% Claude power user and and over 3 billion tokens just last month alone just from me. My team runs our entire operation on this as well. All three of my businesses, they run on this. 20 of my last 30 videos, they were about Claude. It is the best tool that I've ever paid for. And last week, I canceled my $200 plan for the first time. So, for some context, for the last few months, there's just been one thought that keeps coming back into my head, and that's that I'm so dependent on Claude. And I know exactly when this started. So, when Fable launched, I pretty much moved everything onto it, every client system, the team setup, my own assistant, all of it inside of maybe a week. And it was that good. And then the government, they stepped in and Fable was gone. You all know about all that and that entire debacle. And it was gone for everyone. And I just sat there completely blank with a team that had just done all that work and just waiting on a company that couldn't tell me when it was coming back. So the questions started to roll in like what if that happens again? What if one setting changes and all the times that claude is down? Like what the hell do we do? What if the price goes up? And there's just so many other concerns that I have with being locked to a single vendor and you should too. And none of those are hypothetical anymore. like the $20 plan that lost Fable overnight this summer. It's back now, but only if you prepay for it on top, I believe. But the weekly limits, they get cut next week. Their biggest customers are already on the pay peruse at two to three times the old bill. Now, all of it has already happened and I just kept paying. You probably are, too, because when something works this well, you stop asking questions about it. You know what's the saying? It's if it isn't broke, do not fix it. So, that's why I just decided to test things out, find out for myself. So, that's where I'm going to be running all three businesses without the $200 plan. See what breaks and see if I even miss it at all. Let's first start with money because that's really what made me look at this. So, having about three billion tokens in the last month, if you take that number to Enthropic's own pricing page, and if you do the math at the rates that they publish, you land somewhere north of about $10,000. Now, of course, because I'm on the $200 plan, I just paid that $200. So, one of two things is true. Either the public prices are made up or someone is just covering the gap to just keep us building on top of it. And I think it's maybe some of each. And I'm not complaining about this. It's literally a great product. And I paid for it again tomorrow. But what that price does to you is worse than the bill cost. It stops being a question. And the models, they stop being a question as well. So you open it, you go, you build whatever. And I did that for about a year and I still ran out every single week. And my fix was just never to think about it. My fix was to just wait for the reset. So for me, obviously, I use this a I use it for client sites and landing pages, the finance reports, Instagram systems, ad campaigns, outreach lists, like the research behind all of these videos, the team's DM replies, literally everything in my company. And to be fair, the returns from all of those builds and marketing campaigns probably netted us somewhere between $3 to $400,000. Now, all of those different builds and systems are obviously directly related to the business. And it's the point of doing all of this. And those are actually unheard of returns from, you know, $200 plan to, you know, equating to about $400,000 or whatever it is exactly of how much we have made from returns of running this business. And by the way, on September 16th, I'm going to be running a free live webinar on how to actually grow yourself a profitable AI business as a beginner. So, I will be covering what to sell, what to charge, and how to get clients without a huge audience. But anyways, all of that stuff, it went through the same place. But then there was my own assistant that I was using as well. Now this assistant I built it in a folder on my Mac. I just gave it access to all of my important things like my email, my calendar, ClickUp, my CRM, Telegram, and I just gave it a set of routines that actually runs my day. So right now it just briefs me in the morning. It preps me before all my calls. It drafts what I would have drafted in my inbox. And it was just the assistant that really made me notice everything and caught my attention because normally I would reach for Claude on just reflex before the question of any other tool even came up. But quite literally every single routine that I added, every skill that I taught it, it made it more useful as you would imagine and it just made leaving harder. So it was very sticky and I never once chose that