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$0 per-token bill You still have electricity and capital investment. Envelope math suggests cheap electricity is costing you something like $0.50/mtok and the
by Normal_gaussian 15d ago
$0 per-token bill
You still have electricity and capital investment. Envelope math suggests cheap electricity is costing you something like $0.50/mtok and the opportunity cost on the capital tied up and lost in the unit purchase and resale is going to cost you something like $2/mtok at 100% utilization (so, frontier model prices or higher at real utilization), and you don't benefit from any elasticity.
Hosted GLM 5.3 flash is like $0.15/mtok in $0.50/mtok out
- icedchai 15d agoTime to completion also must be considered. If I have to wait around for hours for a prompt to complete locally and I’ll need to iterate quickly, I’m better off hosted than local. If it’s “free” and slow it may just not be worth it.