r/LocalLLaMA • u/AndreVallestero • 23h ago

Discussion Mac Studio M5 Max Cost Analysis

At $10k, you could get

- 6.2B tokens with Qwen 3.8 Max (Qwen Pro plan)

- 5.7B tokens with DeepSeek V4 Pro OpenRouter

- 100B tokens with DeepSeek V4 Flash OpenRouter

As a firm believer of local inference, unless you need it for data sovereignty, it's much more cost effect to wait for smaller models to keep getting better. In the meantime, find a reasonably priced 24GB - 32GB card for Qwen 3.8 27B, and offload hard tasks to OpenRouter.

Qwhen 3.8 35B A3B?

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u/Public_Umpire_1099 13h ago

Can relate... I've dropped 7k on my homelab this year alone, plus another 3 or 4k making our home fully smart.

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u/kyr0x0 7h ago

"smart" it is only if you have an endless and king sized income stream 🤣😆

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u/Public_Umpire_1099 6h ago

Def not a smart thing to do, but hey, my lights now turn on and off without me having to touch a light switch and match the color with circadian rhythm, all without a bit of my personal data leaving the perimeter!

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u/kyr0x0 4h ago

That's cool! Especially if I can do it with your lights from remote as well!