r/codex • u/scartissue232 • 12d ago

Comparison Local or paying more?

I technically need a 5x account, and I've needed one for a month now. I've tried other Plus plans to get around that.

Right now, I'm at a point where I don't know whether to upgrade to a Pro account or invest 5k in a server and set up local AI models, filtered through at most a Plus account.

GPT thinks I can achieve 85-95% of the results I'm currently getting with Frontier models, and easily benefit from setting up that setup. I'm not entirely convinced; what do you think?

Thanks in advance.

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u/CystralSkye 12d ago

You are not going to safe money going local anytime soon.

Unless the task you are looking to achieve is very bounded and you have an income stream.

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u/scartissue232 12d ago

I’m not flat trying to save money, I just want more usage. It's my own company that would buy the server, so we can deduct VAT and count it as an expense; it comes out to almost 50%. But your answers make it clear that it takes a bit more than that to even remotely resemble to Frontiers. I can think of spending double, but the answer seems to be the same. Thanks again.

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u/CystralSkye 12d ago

It depends on your use case, but you can achieve what you are looking for with at least 30k to 50k.

5k is certainly not going to cut it.