No, we can literally buy our own hardware for what we spend in a month and host our own local LLMs for company usage.

> and host our own local LLMs for company usage.

What local alternative could replace your Anthropic use? I have found none. I don't think many have, which is why most of us pay Anthropic, rather than using one of the numerous, far cheaper, cloud services that host "local" class models.

Most of us are paying for access to proprietary SOTA models, rather than hosting.