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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

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Aboutplants · 1790703271 · focus · HN ↗
“OpenAI's new Pro 500 plan offers OpenAI's highest usage allowance and comes with access to its new "Ultrafast" feature — it also costs $500 per month.
At the same time, OpenAI is also making its existing $200 Pro plan less appealing. In Codex and Work, $200 Pro subscribers will see their included usage decrease from 20x of what the company offers to Plus users, down to 10x of that same allowance. In ChatGPT, meanwhile, GPT-6 Pro message caps will decrease from 200 to 100 per week.”
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1. latentsea · 1790705522 · focus · HN ↗
  At $500 per month, it's cheaper to just buy GPUs and use local models.
  1. tripleee · 1790706225 · focus · HN ↗
    Have you looked at the prices of GPUs lately?
    latentsea · 1790707261 · focus · HN ↗
    Yup. I got an R9700 recently for exactly this reason. Figured if I'm going to spend $2400 a year I may as well have something to show for it at the end of it.
    That they are expensive and climbing doesn't negate my point if the cost of the subscription over how long you plan to keep it is equally or more expensive than the GPUs. You can put together dual 5060 Ti or 5070 Ti systems to run local LLMs too. You don't need to splurge on a 5090. That's a bad option at this point.
    directdev · 1790900145 · focus · HN ↗
    Hey! your comment here stood out to me. I'm researching AI coding plan limits and costs, not selling anything.
    Would you be up for a 20-minute chat about your experience, or a few lines by email?

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