Local and preferable Free. It seems odd that the majority of the software development world is gleefully becoming dependent upon proprietary tools running on someone else's machine.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

This is untrue simply based on the so many past instances of Gemini, OpenAI making their products cheaper. The ratelimits for GPT 5 are pretty high. The API costs have decreased by 50% over and above o3's reduction which was also massive.

This is not even considering the fact that the performance has also increased.

While running locally will no doubt get cheaper over time (and hence become much more viable), cloud compute cost will also drop significantly as better hardware and more specialized models are created. We have seen this process already where the cost per million tokens has been falling rapidly.