"afford" in this case has to be compared to the cost of renting.
Of course. Someone who pays 150$ a year for Claude Pro would need years to get to a 4k machine.
150$/month, for year...
I've seen businesses that made the infrastructure to share a 100k machine. They needed it "on premise", but the setup did not look too hard and the results were outstanding compared to Claude Opus.
> 150$/month, for year...
Claude Pro is 15$/month. Not everybody can afford 150$/month.