Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?
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A public calculator for local vs. API LLM economics means more teams will run the numbers instead of defaulting to cloud. If your token spend is material, you should already be modeling breakeven on local rigs and planning for a hybrid architecture where it pencils out.
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