Fair criticisms. If it's comparable with haiku, that's $13/day or 47 days til break-even (again, assuming I have my system generating tokens 24/7 - which I do not).
> You’re also comparing benchmarks for the full model
I wish there were more concrete ways to judge the difference. I've spent a bunch of time using 3 and 4 bit versions of qwen 27b, and my conclusion was that the lower qaunt made more mistakes - but that both systems were able to recover from those mistakes in a coding context. I'm not sure if that holds across the board, but that's the best answer I have so far.
It's also unclear if anthropic always serves you f16 versions of their models. My friends who use claude a lot complain about intelligence that varies from day to day - but that's entirely anecdotal.
> If it's comparable with haiku, that's $13/day or 47 days til break-even
With a $20/month subscription you can basically run Haiku nonstop and never have to worry about limits.
Your comparisons continue to make little sense.
> It's also unclear if anthropic always serves you f16 versions of their models. My friends who use claude a lot complain about intelligence that varies from day to day - but that's entirely anecdotal.
This myth has been debunked over and over. There are numerous sites that run benchmarks against the providers repeatedly and the results are always within the same margin of error.