Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%

Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% by pitched on Saturday April 18, 2026 @01:49PM (#47817900)

For a business with ten or more engineers/people-using-ai, it might still make sense to set this up. For an individual though, I can’t imagine you’d make it through to positive ROI before the hardware ages out.

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Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% by zozbot234 on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:01PM (#47818019)

It's hard to tell for sure because the local inference engines/frameworks we have today are not really that capable. We have barely started exploring the implications of SSD offload, saving KV-caches to storage for reuse, setting up distributed inference in multi-GPU setups or over the network, making use of specialty hardware such as NPUs etc. All of these can reuse fairly ordinary, run-of-the-mill hardware.

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Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% by DeathArrow on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:42PM (#47818350)

Since you need at least a few of H100 class hardware, I guess you need at least few tens of coders to justify the costs.

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Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% by pitched on Saturday April 18, 2026 @10:35PM (#47821362)

I see the 512GB Mac Studios aren’t for sale anymore but that was a much cheaper path

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