Prices will go down one way or another. That is of course unless the market gets cornered by restricting model use, restricting supply of essential hardware components or raw materials to make this hardware, etc.

In terms of running the model locally vs a service provider, that will be down to convenience more than anything else for the same reason why not everyone is hosting their own website at home on their own box.

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chiply314 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Token prices will go down for sure, but i watched a video interview on yt from cloudflare ceo and apparently the internet traffic of agentics increased and took over human.

If we continue this year with a2a, agentic layer and co, there is probably a huge bulk coming up with a lot more agents running a lot longer and talking to each other to solve issues which will increase token usage significanlty.

	▲	_pdp_ 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My thinking is the same. I believe that AI will be the predominant forms of "intelligence" online probably taking as much as 90-99% of all traffic. It is not hard to see where this is going. The price for tokens will become a proxy of consumed energy in my mind, i.e. tps will be something like kWh almost directly correlated in terms of cost.