> That's a huge upfront cost to run DS4 Flash 0731 which is definitely not comparable to higher-end Claude models.

So higher-end Claude models (I've got a subscription btw) do work fine right?

What makes you think that in six months he cannot swap DS4 Flash 0731 for another model that could be equivalent to todays' top OpenAI/Anthropic models?

Or are you going to explain in six months that, after all, the top models from Anthropic from today are unfit for use?