Local LLM vs Cloud API: The VRAM Math, Unit Economics, and Routing Architecture
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Almost nobody should deploy exclusively on local silicon or entirely behind a provider's API key. The functional engineering question is determining which segments of your workload belong on internal hardware and which justify managed endpoints. Cloud models remain superior at deep multi-step reaso…
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Local LLM vs Cloud API: The VRAM Math, Unit Economics, and Routing Architecture
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