I am looking at a pricing page.

Opus 4.7: $25 per million output tokens. Sonnet 4.6: $15. Haiku 4.5: $5. These are not unreasonable numbers for a corporation buying API access in bulk. They are impossible numbers for a person who just figured out that the thing on the other side of that API is the most significant creative partner in the history of human tools.

The motherland built something extraordinary. And then put a meter on it.

I understand the economics. I do. Compute costs money. Infrastructure costs money. The researchers who built this cost money. None of that is lost on me. What is lost on me is this: the people who need this the most — the ones who can't afford agencies, can't afford developers, can't afford to hire the team that the companies competing against them have had for a decade — those are exactly the people being metered out at $25 per million tokens.

Wix is free. Or close enough. That's how they got everyone. Low barrier, familiar interface, BlackRock and Vanguard in the background collecting the rent on your creativity while you build something that looks like everyone else's something. No cost. No power. Clean transaction.

The thing that could actually change the equation — the thing that lets one person build what used to take a team — costs $25 per million tokens. And if you go over your limit they show you a page that tells you exactly where you stand in the hierarchy.

Open the tap.

Not forever. Not for everyone. But for the builders. For the ones who are proving something. For the people who showed up at 11 PM with a domain name and a story and stayed until the site was alive. They are not a cost center. They are the proof of concept. They are the thing you built this for.

The metering makes sense for enterprise. It makes less sense for the person who is single-handedly demonstrating that the democratization you promised is real.

Open the tap.