If you spend $200/month on Anthropic, that's $2400/year. Buy a fast GPU or Strix Halo machine, do the AI locally, after a year you're saving money.

If you want to run better models, you need one of the more expensive GPUs, like an H100 or such ($40k). I don't think any of the smaller models are remotely comparable to anthropic.

The GPU also takes around $500-$1000 in electricity, and even then you won't be able to run a model of as good quality as anthropic.

It's also hard to justify since who knows how quickly it will be outdated, like maybe soon you'll need a blackwell chip (like a $100k PC, check out the NVIDIA DGX Station) to run a decent model.

... It'll take a lot more than a year to pay back a model capable of running openclaw with any sort of reasonable performance.

Or can you report that you've had good luck with a Strix Halo or local GPU for less than $40k up-front costs?