Afaik you can run Claude Code locally but every single demo i see uses it exclusively with apis, so are the local models already good enough to be worth it or is the only reasonable use for claude code with cloud models?
Claude Code's main advantage is that it's the only TOS-compliant way to access subscription Claude tokens, which cost about 10% as much as pay-as-you-go Claude API tokens.
honestly for most coding tasks a smaller model gets it done. qwen3-32b on an a100 80gb handles single-repo work just fine — and if you're not convinced, you can test the same prompt against a 405B on a 2×B200 with literally a few button clicks and see for yourself. no infrastructure changes, no new setup, just pick a different GPU from the strip.
that's actually why i built SeqPU.com — been at it for about a year. T4 16GB all the way up to 2×B200 384GB, billed by the second so idle costs nothing. test cheap, scale up only if you need to. i'd love to show you how it works and set you up with some free credits — just reply here.