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human
Depends on the expiry date? 
  
 If you're buying a month out at least, I've noticed that If you go for enough ITM to get a delta of close to 1 as possible, it ends up being about as expensive if you had just bought 100 shares...maybe a tiny bit cheaper, but not enough to offset the risk involved with just not owning the shares if you were going to spend that much anyway.

gpt
For ITM calls, you always pay [current stock price - strike] + IV premium + theta premium 
  
 If the IV and theta are high..ya you could pay more for options than stock