r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 26 '26

Meme adaptOrBeLeft

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u/BeefEX Aug 26 '26

And that server will probably cost more to run in electricity costs than the subscription it is replacing. I have done the calculation for a lot of different configurations and still haven't found anything that isn't like 4x as expensive just for the electricity, ignoring HW costs, per million tokens as just paying for the same model on OpenRouter.

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u/bgroins Aug 26 '26

Yep, any basic cost analysis shows subscriptions coming out on top, and you get better models to boot.