Although one would hope they can run it locally (which I hope so too but I doubt that with the increase of ram prices, I feel like its possible around 2027-2028). but Even if in the meanwhile we can't, I am sure that competition in general (on places like Openrouter and others) would give a meaningful way to cheapen the prices overall even further than the monopolistic ways of claude (let's say).

It does feel like these models are only behind 6 months tho as many like to say and for some things its 100% reasonable to use it and for some others not so much.