Not exactly. Those models are based on intermittent usage. If you're using an AI engineer using a sophisticated agent flow, the usage is constant and continuous. That can price to an equivalent of a dedicated cube at home over 2 years.

I had 3 projects running today. I hit my Claude Max Pro session limits twice today in about 90 minutes. I'm now keeping it down to 1 project, and I may interrupt it until the evening when I don't need Claude Web. If I could run it passively on my laptop, I would.