Raise your hand if you wouldn't pay $60/mo for SOTA LLM access/couldn't get $60 of value out of it monthly.

HDBaseT 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I currently pay for $20/m ChatGPT/Claude subscription. I currently put about $20-30/m into my OpenRouter account.

I find this to be a pretty good split for all my side projects. A real developer wouldn't find this sufficient I would imagine but with the recent discounts on ChatGPT 5.6 Luma and Deepseek Flash V4 0731, I tend to have plenty of left off.

I might be an odd case, tech stuff is my hobby so I enjoy playing with these tools. I do not have any media subscriptions (no Netflix, Amazon, etc) but 20-50$ a month isn't bank breaking.

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analognoise 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd buy and run an open Chinese model before I ever paid for monthly access to any of these AI assholes.

	▲	batperson 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Buy what? Hardware for inference? Pretty sure you'd still be giving money to "AI assholes", just somewhat different flavor. And you'd likely have to pay so much that the $60/mo would seem like peanuts, and in the end you'd still have a subpar experience/performance compared to SOTA.