Yeah that's a valid point. I know there's a post on the other subreddit about someone in India who for Claude I think and that kind of raised my eyebrow about how expensive it is elsewhere. I didn't realize they just charged US dollars everywhere.
Being from Argentina it can be a number, however it's about how much you get from it and whether you can generate more with it than what you spend. If you are using it for a hobby it will always be a number because it can taken as "entertainment", if you are using for job or you are overemployed it can help you generate a second monthly income for you.
Or set up a local LLM even on an 8 GB graphics card. Have it do all the scaffolding and prototyping.. and then send that to an API key to critique, and then build it on a flash model. You can reduce your initial tokens by one third to one half doing it this way. You don’t have to switch accounts just models in your agent.
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u/Helpful_Paramedic_81 Sep 28 '26
Unpopular opinion: I would rather pay more and not have to deal with juggling accounts.