You're comparing the highest tier Claude subscription to something Qwen3.5-122B-A10B running locally, apples to oranges.

If you compare to a smarter US model like Grok 4.3, $1400 will pay for 560M output tokens, which at ~25 t/s locally using it nonstop for 8 hours a day would take two years to pay back. Not accounting for bubble prices or electricity.

Is the goal maximum t/s?

According to openrouter, Opus 4.8 is 128 t/s. So 10x faster than my antirez/ds4.