That's why it doesn't seem worth it if you are not running the model locally. To really get powerful use out of this you need to be running inference constantly.

The pro plan exhausts my tokens two hours into limit reset, and that's with occasional requests on sonnet. The 5-8x usage Max plan isn't going to be any better if I want to run constant crons, with the Opus model (the docs recommend using Opus).

Good Macs are thousands but Im waiting to find someone who's showing off my dream use case to jump at it.