What a week of local AI actually cost
I ran everything on my own hardware for a week. Here is the bill.
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I ran everything on my own hardware for a week. Here is the bill. $61 in electricity. Nine hours of setup and babysitting. It replaced $23 of API spend. On the money alone that is a bad trade, and most posts would stop there. The useful finding is narrower: bulk transcription won, and won clearly. Everything else lost. If you are considering the move, measure the specific workload first. "Local is cheaper" is true about one job at a time, not about a stack.
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Ran everything locally for a week. $61 electricity. 9 hours of my time. Replaced $23 of API spend. Bad trade — except for bulk transcription, where it won clearly. Measure the workload, not the stack.
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