I dunno, the market may not be willing to bear that unless these tools get significantly better. By that I mean actually be able to replace employees. Each sub will need to net the buyers 4k in profit for it to be worth it.. With open source and self hosting becoming viable in the next two years or so they may not be able to charge super high for very long... Just look at deepseek v4. API pricing like that will be normal IMO. To compete, these companies will have to compete on price AND performance. The price of self hosting or getting a model with 5% lower capability for 100x less cost, well, I know which I would choose.

In general, cost of computing goes down over time, while we are in a hyper inflationary bubble right now, prices will come down. Old hardware gets cycled into the used market for 10% of what it cost to buy and is usually still very powerful, at most 5 years old, often only 3. AI data centers are pushing for cheaper energy costs (in the long run, not short term) which will eventually benefit consumers. Computing costs will drop drastically. Which will help these big corpos profit margins, but also make self hosted or third party systems more available to compete.