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Cloud APIs charge by the number of input and output tokens, with costs growing linearly with usage frequency, and each call includes network round-trip latency; local operation is a one-time hardware investment plus electricity and maintenance costs, with a marginal call cost close to zero, but it is limited by local VRAM and compute power.
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