I use hosted providers myself, but I can churn through $100 worth of tokens in half a day even with cheap models like Deepseek easily. If someone's use is as light as yours, then sure - grab a subscription and you'll save far more. For higher use it will come down to how cheap your electricity is whether it is worth offloading at least some of it (for me it's not, FWIW)

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iJohnDoe an hour ago | parent [-]

Could you share a bit about what you’re working on or what type of projects require that much usage? Is it hobby, production, revenue generating?

	▲	vidarh 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		A mix. I have hobby projects that churn through that much when I don't need the tokens for others things. I also have projects for clients that easily consumes those levels. As well as a stealth-ish potential startup. Currently I'm at 4 different subscriptions + more than I'd like in spend via OpenRouter... What multiplies it very quickly is when you start feeding them with test suites and "Ralph loops" that run until the test suites pass, or complex chains with lots of sub-agents being triggered. If you're sitting there watching everything, it will be hard to burn all that much even if you're running multiple things in paralle.