No true. Also - put Deepseekv4 Flash on your local with effort set to "high" and you'll see that many many are using that model on their own machines without paying anyone anything.

Its just that some of us didn't imagine having GPUs would be advantageous and were not gamers on the side. Those who had beefy GPUs or GPU rigs for any reason, they rarely need to go anywhere else.

At least I am so impressed with Deepseekv4 AFTER using Claude Opus 4.7 for significant amount of time that I am not going anywhere but Deepseekv4.

The model is just INSANE. Things I have done with it include attempting to write a 2.5D game engine in C with full animation and map rendering layer by layer.

You'll need to spend at least $20K on a workstation that can run DS4 Flash. It would take ages to reach that much in token spend at the speeds it runs at, and if you factor electricity costs you will likely never break even vs using API.