Rambling and incoherent. You can get better than Claude 4 quality for pennies via Deepseek V4.

AI is just a technology which means it will be expressed in differential capabilities which will appeal more to different segments, and so price discrimination will be a natural part of the system.

If it is worth your while today to pay for Opus 4.8 then pay. If it isn’t then don’t. But in a couple of years you will have Opus 4.8 quality on your iPhone … for free.

The alternative is to use … Gpt 5.5 at $20 a month or DeepSeek v4 for less. Both of which are capabilities no human on the planet had access—for any price—a mere couple of years ago.