#worth-it

Claude Opus 4.8 runs $3,300/mo vs DeepSeek's $54 at Heavy workload. Here's the break-even math — and when Opus earns its 61x token premium.

Claude Sonnet API ($3/1M tokens) vs self-hosted Llama 3.2 90B (~$20/mo). The math flips at 303 prompts/day — self-hosting saves $46–$600/mo above that threshold.

Braintrust costs $249/mo vs LangSmith's $99/mo. Is the $150/mo premium justified? Break-even math for solo devs, small teams, and scaling AI products.