Comment by syntaxing

Prior to LLaMA 2, I would have agreed with you but LLaMA 2 is a game changer. The 70B performance is probably between 3.5 and 4. But running it personally isn't cheap. The cheapest I found is about $4/hr to run the whole thing. I only spend around $3 on average a month on GPT-3.5 API for my personal stuff.