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Sunk Cost calculator shows when local LLM hardware pays for itself

Commenters challenge the payback math and premises

2 Sep 14 10:33 PM · 13d ago · 1 post · 2 comments · 2 sources · development 2 of 5

Multiple Hacker News users dispute the calculator's assumptions. Some claim token throughput estimates are too low or daily token defaults unrealistically conservative. Others question whether cost savings alone justify the comparison, given non-financial reasons for local deployment.

“43 years to break even on Qwen 3.8 at 25% the speed of the API, lol.”

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