Local models are not comparable to the FOTA models at all. I know what I'm saying because I do have 4 local H100's in my server, and could run the very best local models. It's night and day. They are unusable and stupid.

You could judge the costs of the AI products you're using by the standard API pricing, not promotional subscription offers.

There is very little vendor lock. We can keep using subsidized model until it’s not. Then switch to next subsidized model.

I keep telling them and they still want to spend money on tokens at the Anthropic casino, even though they are egregiously price gouging and applying upper limits so you spend more on tokens.

Sometimes you can't help gamblers who want to gamble on tokens to hit the jackpot on fixing a typical issue which can be done by local models or even reading the documentation.

Are there local models that are anywhere near as good at coding as opus 4.6?

This doesn’t affect existing users.

This is a simple supply and demand curve.

Higher demand means the price goes up .. this has been true of things since before SaaS and before computers

The 'local model' is called your brain.