Anthropic gave leaders a blunt signal about planning for LLM charges when it introduced blended pricing for enterprise users of Claude recently. Enterprises with over 150 seatholders will now pay a blanket per-seat charge ($20 per seat at the moment), plus a variable charge based on API usage and which Claude model they’re using. When you think about pricing strategy, this isn’t a surprise. Forget about the escalating cost of doing business for LLMs like Anthropic and OpenAI driving price increases. This is indeed leading to pressure to raise prices; however, customer willingness to pay is the ultimate determinant of price and, until now, you’ve been benefitting from dirt-cheap LLM charges. For example, Claude at $200/month (Anthropic’s previous Premium Tier fixed pricing) equates to $1.25 per hour. Meanwhile, you’re paying your cheapest labor pool about $40 per hour. And if you’re using Claude for more skilled work, the gap between Claude’s pricing and your cost of labor is even wider.…