With multiple 200 a month subs you are getting a multiple of those subsidized tokens. At least if you tabulate at retail api prices.

This rent in the era of expensive hardware thing is not exclusive to inference.

I’ve needed x86 architecture for windows builds recently and have just hemmed and hawed over buying a decent windows 11 box.

I can’t make the math work against Azure instances.

I can spin up a nice one for build deallocate,spin up something cheaper for QA and then turn that off.

I can build all the devops around that, with a number of passes, with a skills based interface so working with the cloud is not too bad.

The only thing that still has me thinking about it is the prospect of price is going up even more, which is acid as far as I know.

And I’m hopefully going to need this x86 stuff enough that I don’t wanna wish I had gotten one for that high prices now.