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The Warm-Up Tax: When Local LLMs Lose to a Hosted Endpoint

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Your local model is not slow. It is cold. Those are different problems. A cold model loads weights into memory. The first request pays for that load. The second request borrows the warm memory. A hosted endpoint pays a network hop every time. It never pays the load. The interesting question is when…

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  1. 2026-08-29 10:02 · DEV Community — AI
    The Warm-Up Tax: When Local LLMs Lose to a Hosted Endpoint

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