I wouldn't be so sure. The generosity of the subscription plans has declined GREATLY over the past 6 months or so. They are likely trending towards api pricing parity. In which case, having your own hardware makes sense if you can utilize it well.
I max out my Claude Max plan every week, and I can measure the output, and for me it's stayed fairly constant, subject to the various "bonuses" whenever Anthropic is feeling the competitive pressure.
Well to be fair the output you get has improved greatly. You can still get billions and billions of Luna/Sonnet tokens within your subscription comfortably (doesn’t feel fair to compare Luna to Haiku). Sol/Astra/Fable… yeah, they’ll chew through your credit.
Nah, I used $1500 in api prices last week, after caching (8900 ignoring caching) for what amounts to $50 a week. They’re nowhere near api prices yet