Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?

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Assumptions you can change Electricity, $/kWh API speed, tok/s Your measured speed, tok/s Or your monthly bill, $ 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. Assume API prices keep falling 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.

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