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		ancorevard 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Sonnet 4.5 Can't use Anthropic models in Cursor. Completely cost prohibitive compared to gpt-5 and grok models. Why is this? Does Anthropic have just higher infrastructure costs compared to OpenAI/xAI?

doctoboggan 5 months ago | [–]

Possibly, or they are pricing for sustainability and OpenAI/xAI are just burning through VC money.

acchow 5 months ago | | [–]

The Anthropic models are also better at coding. Why wouldn’t they price it higher?

dbbk 5 months ago | [–]

It's meant to be used with the Max subscription

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