[Aurornis]

A suggestion: Don't invest in any new hardware to run an LLM locally until you've tried the model for a while through OpenRouter.

The Qwen models are cool, but if you're coming from Opus you will be somewhere between mildly to very disappointed depending on the complexity of your work.

[zozbot234]

OpenRouter-served models are often more heavily quantized than what you can run locally, or try for yourself on generic cloud-based infrastructure.

[Computer0]

I just choose a specific provider so it's not switching all the time.