At work I wouldn't want to use anything else. Compared to my salary a Claude subscription (or two) is cheap

For hobby projects I've completely switched to DeepSeek v4 pro. I spend less than on a $10 Claude plan and am not subjected to quota limits (when I have time and motivation, the last thing I want is a 5 hour quota running out). And the difference in model performance is fine for those smaller projects, most of which will end up abandoned or in a state of "good enough" anyways

And for utility tasks, those 30b models are also great. I'm a big fan of gemma4