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Self-hosting AI does not save money, and I do it anyway
Hi folks, I'm a long-time lurker and big fan of this subreddit and a massive self-hosting fan (also outside of AI). I doubt many people will disagree with me here because I see the same arguments bein
Hi folks, I'm a long-time lurker and big fan of this subreddit and a massive self-hosting fan (also outside of AI). I doubt many people will disagree with me here because I see the same arguments being made in many posts. However, I thought it might be interesting to share anyway. I wrote down why self-hosting AI does not save money: https://www.nijho.lt/post/self-hosting-ai-is-not-cheaper/ EDIT: didn't think this would be so controversial 😅 I do say explicitly in my blog post "I would never send 200 GB of email, my messages, and my location history to an API, zero data retention or not". EDIT 2: Comparing $200 sub with Opus 5.5 or Astra with Qwen 3.8 27B is not apples to apples. submitted by /u/basnijholt [link] [comments]
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- How many people in this sub try to train their own AI from scratch on their systems just for fun and to test out techniques from research papers?
- Qwen-3.8-27B is good enough that I stopped using API
- Here my pretty good qwen3.8 27B setup, hope it helps
- I built Infercat: Share your local AI with friends over an encrypted p2p tunnel. Connect with an invite code from anywhere.
- A collection of small domain-specific benchmarks for local models (30+ and growing)
Source: r/LocalLLaMA | 2026-10-02