Comment by hirako2000

They aren't too good to not subscribe.

I've used over a trillion tokens in the last few years with zero subscription. In fact I have one with deepseek, spend 13 cents to test some automation. The rest is consumed free of charge to bleed the bleeders.

If/when they ALL enforce paid subscriptions, I will only run inference locally. By then consumer hardware will equal frontier models in term of speed and performance.