they literally would be selling it to me.

I deploy browser extensions to millions of devices, and small local models that I can run in that space are incredibly appealing.

But the "per user" model is just especially difficult to justify here, and comes with a TON of fucking downsides like usage tracking, feature availability, and product structure (ex - is a trial user a user? how long? etc...)

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And it's not even like they're justifying it with model download support or caching... they shove it entirely onto hugging face, or have you self serve.

As their literal target audience - I'd rather buy the weights for a fixed price (even a high one), and not let them influence my product design decisions with saas style pricing.