Tools vs services in my mind. There is no guarantee any provider will continue to do what they are doing for you at the price they are doing it.
The object permanence of not having to reinvent the world every time a model gets sunsetted has value.
With competition we kind of have guarantee up to what providers can do, they don't have that much control, the most radical thing they can do is to go bankrupt.
> Tools vs services in my mind. There is no guarantee any provider will continue to do what they are doing for you at the price they are doing it.
with open models, there is ecosystem/market of providers, where you can easily switch to provider you like