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If you buy a machine to run local models, how long until it pays for itself, and what can it actually do?

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Your machine

I’m looking at a , the with of memory.

About this machine

The break-even

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How you’d use it

Assumptions you can change

Your own machine, speed and bill are sent to us once you stop typing, with no cookies and no IP address, only the country the request came from, so the options and estimates can get better. Browsers set not to be tracked send nothing.

Where nothing has been measured, local speed is estimated as memory bandwidth ÷ bytes read per token × , and labelled as such. API speed only affects the time comparison.

How this is calculated

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