I’m surprised how easy it is to blow through hundreds of dollars in Claude tokens at work. They certainly aren’t subsidizing anything. If the Qwen 3.8 27B model I run on my gaming PC at home were priced like Claude, I’d probably have a $1000 a month bill.
Edit:
I bought a 7900 XTX a couple months ago for less than 2 months worth of Claude bills at work that runs 3.8 27B quite well at 200k context that is pretty on par with Sonnet 5.
Maybe Anthropic isn’t bleeding money as fast as they would otherwise be, but their premium pricing is pretty hard to justify. If Qwen 4 27B keeps pace with Sonnet 5.5, then we’ll basically have a Fable 5.1 class model that runs on a gaming PC.