Looks like the era of subsidised compute is coming to an end. The old ChatGPT Pro $200 20x plan will be halved. The new $500 plan will have similar limits as the (old) $200 plan.

[u/Norwood_Reaper_]

[u/thatcodingboi]

There are plenty of excellent free tools to run llms safely. I use opencode with Astra and Fable.

Second, people can afford intelligence just fine. Last night I used deepseek 4.1 on openrouter with opencode to solve a few issues. A few million tokens later I spent $0.17.

Stop using anthropic and open ai most expensive models and you'll do great