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The author's monthly running cost for local LLM inference in the first three months (hardware amortization plus electricity) was about $58 to $73, versus a cloud API monthly bill of about $180 to $240 at equivalent usage, a net saving of $107 to $180 per month, breaking even around the fourth month.
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