[jazzyjackson]

It’s what a small business might have paid for an onprem web server a couple of decades ago before clouds caught on. I figure if a legal or medical practice saw value in LLMs it wouldn’t be a big deal to shove 50k into a closet

[Greed]

You would still have to do some pretty outstanding volume before that makes sense over choosing the "Enterprise" plan from OpenAI or Anthropic if data retention is the motivation.

Assuming, of course, that your legal team signs off on their assurance not to train on or store your data with said Enterprise plans.

[LunaSea]

At least with the server you know what you are buying.

With Anthropic you're paying for "more tokens than the free plan" which has no meaning