Imo the least interesting use of LLMs is stuff like Chatbots. API access is a prerequisite to do 99% of the interesting things that they can do.

I agree - it's not that I 'can't' access Claude, it's that they're not really shipping the API at the same scale that OAI is.

I just checked out poe.com. Seems you can only buy a subscription if you own Apple hardware (first time I've ever heard that).

It's $20 a month and comes with 300 GPT-4 messages and 1000 Claude 1.2 messages.

By comparison, ChatGPT Plus gives gives you up to 6000 GPT-4 messages a month for the same price (admittedly it would be hard to use that many as they are given in 3 hour blocks).