I don't really consider this self-hosted since he ends up using spot instances but it is interesting to read about limitations on trying to run a powerful model "on your own" and what it could cost. Archive: https://archive.today/P2RAW From the post: >>Claude Code Anonymous# I’m definitely part of the 1% that has got a ton of benefit out of their payment model, and I’m not entirely surprised that they’re changing the deal, given the incredible demand for Claude Code. Much like Cursor’s recent pricing changes, this caused a lot of anger in the community, and it also triggered my curiosity on what other options are out there. Just to set the record straight tho: While I often worked 16h-days, I never automated Claude Code and was well within their Terms of Service. My Anthropic bill for July is at ~6000$, since I’ve been using their GitHub Review bot, and while some people have been extracting the Max API Token to run on GitHub in the background, I opted to not break the rules and pay up… so Anthropic, we cool?