Cost of a local set-up for coding?

I have to say that I am quite impressed by recent progress in LLM use for coding. I've never really bothered setting up a local model. However now that I went trough some real $$ in Claude / gpt tokens, I am figuring that buying a real set up might be way better (and not giving my code to some AI overlord). I suspect these questions has been asked... but I also suspect the answer might change often. - Are the local model relevant for coding yet ? How do they behave in terms of efficiency ? chattiness ? - When is the economy of buying hardware worth it over spending tokens ? - Are there set up that might still be relevant in 6 months ? - Are there full on tutorials for these ? submitted by /u/WERE_CAT [link] [comments]

Source: r/LocalLLaMA | 2026-09-22