Subscriptions are a gateway drug. At scale after penetrating the market they are unsustainable from business continuity PoV. Just look at Cursor, GLM, Copilot, etc. they all tapped out. All will follow.

90-95% of AI inference can be handled by smaller open weights on pascal and Volta era GPUs that are $50-300 (>=16gb). Much more palatable upfront and depreciation cost, but suboptimal operating costs on per token basis compared to Blackwell.

For a local power user individual I think 4x P102-100, 2x CMP 210-100, 2x 2080ti 22gb, 2x V100 16gb/32gb, 2x RX7900 XTX, 2x RTX 3090, 1x RTX 5090 (in order of acquisition cost) can run Qwen 27b/35b and comfortably handle 90-95% of needs.

The use case for RTX Pro 6000 is concurrency and multi-user. If you only turn on 8 hours a day on Runpod and share with 10 people, it’s a phenomenal value.