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By the time you breakeven on whatever you spend on a decent LLM capable build, your hardware will be too far behind to run whatever is best locally then. It's something that feels cheaper but with the pace of things, unless you are churning an insane amount of tokens, probably doesn't make sense. Never mind that local models running on 24 or 48GB are maybe around flash-lite in ability while being slower than SOTA models.

Local models are mostly for hobby and privacy, not really efficiency.