Apple Silicon vs OpenRouter: Why Local LLM Inference Costs More Than the CloudA cost breakdown of running Llama 3.3 70B ...

Apple Silicon vs OpenRouter: Why Local LLM Inference Costs More Than the CloudA cost breakdown of running Llama 3.3 70B locally on an M-series Mac Studio versus paying per-token on OpenRouter. The cloud wins by 30-60x at typical developer volumes — here's the math and the three scenarios where local still makes sense.https://pickuma.com/posts/apple-silicon-vs-openrouter-local-llm-cost/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=crosspost&utm_campaign=blog#AI #WebDev