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This seems to be a much more reasonable unit, 10,000 BTU, does both heating and cooling via a heat pump, and it costs $700, although there are a lot of negative reviews:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZCZSSV8
$5000 is ridiculous for the Gradient Comfort 8000BTU window unit. The Soleus is the only other heat pump window unit I've seen for sale. Midea makes some A/C's that are more efficient because they use an inverter, but they don't do heating. There seems to be a market failure here, given that a bidirectional heat pump shouldn't cost much more than an air conditioner you'd think everyone would prefer a heat pump, especially since it would lower cooling costs and can do lower cost heating in the winter. But nobody is selling them at reasonable cost and quality. They could include a heat exchanger also to bring in fresh air without losing energy. But nobody makes such a thing. Maybe the barriers to entry in this market are high for some reason? Window air conditioners have always kind of sucked (too noisy, encourage mold, uneven distribution of cold, crummy temperature control). I wonder why. It seems wrong.