Good breakdown. For me the value really depends on how often you actually use the advanced models day to day - I was paying for two tools and realised I only leaned on one of them for anything serious. Cancelling the overlap saved more than any single discount did.
Deleted my comment about running AI LLM models locally and privately...at least there's now this article I can point to: Your own ChatGPT, offline: AI without the cloud on your laptop notebookchat.com/index.php?topic=315954.0
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