I saw that the Hetzner matrix like has GPU servers < £300 per month (plus set up fee). I haven't tried it but I think if I was getting up to that sort of spend I'd be setting up Ollama on one of those with a larger Qwen3 max model (which I hear is on par with Opus 4.5?? - I haven't been able to try Qwen yet though so that could be b*****ks).

I have tried most of the major open source models now and they all feel okay, but i’d prefer Sonnet or something any day over them. Not even close in capability for general tasks in my experience.