Why Local? Decision Framework

When does self-hosting actually beat the cloud?

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Overview: Why Local? Decision Framework

At 10K requests/day, a self-hosted RTX 4090 ($1,500) pays for itself in ~2 months vs GPT-4o-mini API at $0.15/1M input tokens. Privacy (GDPR/HIPAA), sub-10ms latency, and air-gapped deployment are the other three drivers that APIs simply can't match.

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