A woman was paying $2000 monthly to use Claude AI. She switched to Chinese/CCP Deep Seek AI. Price $5 monthly and 80% as good as Claude.
Obviously, you are joking, but there are many ways to get more for your money with commercial AI models while still getting high quality results.
I like the technique used in this video using Claude Code with Ollama and locally run LLMs. Here is a discussion with Gemini 3.5 with the link to the YouTube video:
https://gemini.google.com/share/c5e608d85268
I also like to use multiple LLMs on a Hostinger VPS using Ollama with Open WebUI while only subscribing to a couple services and using APIs for the others. This is discussed in this YouTube video with a summary by Gemini 3.5:
https://gemini.google.com/share/0b38f7d1cf6d