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Fixed monthly subscription models exhibit a "heavy-user subsidy effect," where the compute costs consumed by a small number of high-frequency users are cross-subsidized by the subscription fees of the majority of light users.
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7/13/2026
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Perplexity Max额度从40K缩至10K，付费用户该怎么办？
redditr/perplexity_ai7/12/2026
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