Tried local LLM on a 4060 Ti vs cloud API, local won for my workflow

I spent the last two weekends running a 7B model locally on my 4060 Ti 16GB and comparing it to a paid cloud API for coding help. The local one was slower at first, around 12 tokens per second, but the total privacy and no token limits made a huge difference when I was iterating on a messy Python script. I saved about $40 in API fees that week and the responses stayed consistent even when I pasted in the same file multiple times. Anyone else find local models better for repetitive debugging tasks, or am I missing something about cloud?

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henry_kelly545d ago

Ditch the cloud for anything repetitive, you nailed it.