Rounding everything down in the most optimistic setting got me to $0.40 per million tokens, and openrouter has the same model at $.38/mtok.
What is it with AI SaaS naming themselves "openxyz" when there is 0% open about them?
Also many have power even cheaper or even free unused surplus power with solar.
I don't do local inference other than hobby & learning reasons because electricity is so expensive where I am at.
But once all that is done you still own a Mac in one case, and you don’t in the other, correct?