Read these two facts together. Because there's something important to learn from it.

Anthropic just told investors it's on track for its first profitable quarter, with revenue more than doubling to ~$10.9B.

OpenAI is projected to burn well into the double-digit billions this year (2026) and, per the WSJ, is now weighing further price cuts to keep enterprises from defecting to Claude.

The lab bleeding the most cash is the one under pressure to get cheaper, because the profitable one is what enterprises increasingly want.

SemiAnalysis ran the tokenomics. A $200 ChatGPT plan can soak up to ~$14,000 in API-equivalent tokens a month. The same $200 Claude Max tier caps near $8,000.

OpenAI already eats the bigger subsidy by a wide margin, and the WSJ reports it's considering cutting token prices further to win users from Anthropic.

So the company losing the most money is the one being pushed to go cheaper, while the one approaching profitability sets the terms.

This is competition 101, heated competition in a nutshell.