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I'm not that familiar with the open source ones - how good are they in comparison?


It doesn't really matter how much people are willing to pay. It matters how much margin the market will allow you to charge. OpenAI may be a bit better than most competitors most of the time (IMO they keep getting leap-frogged by Anthropic et al. though), but if your customers can get 90% of the value for 50% less, they will bail. There is no moat. Margins will be razor thin. That's not a 1B+ company.


I think the difference between 90% and 95% is huge. As a coder, if the LLM is wrong 10% of the time that's pretty bad, I can't really trust it. If it's wrong 5% of the time, still not great but much better - I'd pay much more for that kind of reliability improvement.




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