You're getting downvoted but what you said is true. The cost of self-hosting (and achieving +70 tok/sec consistently across the entire context window) has never been low enough to justify open source as a viable competitor to proprietary models of OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
you're right, I should clarify that I'm talking about no thinking mode, otherwise flash goes from "a bit more expensive than dsv3" to "10x more expensive"
