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r/LocalLLaMA's Diagnosis of the FT Story on Claude's Falling Price Is Zero Data Retention, Not Quality
The FT reported that the average price Anthropic's customers pay has fallen roughly 25 percent since mid-July as cheaper tools gain enterprise share. The 687-upvote r/LocalLLaMA thread's top explanation (186 upvotes, echoed by several others) is not model quality but policy: Anthropic told enterprise customers that prompts and outputs from its most powerful models are retained 30 days with no opt-out, which disqualifies buyers who require zero retention. Anthropic's own report conceded the policy would 'pose real risks to our business success.' Single-thread sourcing on the causal claim, so treat the diagnosis as community consensus rather than established fact.
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