I wouldn't be so sure. The generosity of the subscription plans has declined GREATLY over the past 6 months or so. They are likely trending towards api pricing parity. In which case, having your own hardware makes sense if you can utilize it well.

I max out my Claude Max plan every week, and I can measure the output, and for me it's stayed fairly constant, subject to the various "bonuses" whenever Anthropic is feeling the competitive pressure.

Nah, I used $1500 in api prices last week, after caching (8900 ignoring caching) for what amounts to $50 a week. They’re nowhere near api prices yet

> trending towards

Well to be fair the output you get has improved greatly. You can still get billions and billions of Luna/Sonnet tokens within your subscription comfortably (doesn’t feel fair to compare Luna to Haiku). Sol/Astra/Fable… yeah, they’ll chew through your credit.

There could be gym logic at play. Hundreds signed up, 20 people actually exercising. Though it's probably more likely in the lower tiers.