Really? A $200/mo plan gives you an enormous amount of inference on this model.

200$USD is a lot of money for a lot of people.

It might explain why DeepSeek Flash v4.1 1017 is the most popular model at OpenRouter.

You won't lose the house, everybody has three mortgages nowadays!

how much?

What you need for real engineering and scaling is cheap and just enough smarts. I've found GPT 6 Luna to be cheap enough that I can pretend the cost doesn't exist and it's smart enough that I can get real work done. This let's me scale it in ways that I can't scale frontier models. And funny enough, the LLM I have running on my 5070 Ti is just about comparable to what I get from Luna. Unless frontier intelligence gets waaaaaay cheaper I basically don't care about them.

as long as anthropic requires me to use their trash UIs to use their amazing models, ill stick to other providers.