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Mac Studio M5 Max Cost Analysis

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At $10k, you could get - 6.2B tokens with Qwen 3.8 Max (Qwen Pro plan) - 5.7B tokens with DeepSeek V4 Pro OpenRouter - 100B tokens with DeepSeek V4 Flash OpenRouter As a firm believer of local inference, unless you need it for data sovereignty, it's much more cost effect to wait for smaller models…

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  1. 2026-08-26 00:43 · r/LocalLLM
    About to drop 10k on Mac Studio m5 ultra should I
  2. 2026-08-25 15:49 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Mac Studio M5 Max Cost Analysis

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