Run the AI on your own machine, or pay per call? What actually changes

The same kind of model can run on a company's servers or on your own computer. What flips for privacy, cost, speed and model choice — and why your… Aliteq Syntax · Build Editor

API models run on the provider's servers; local models run on yours

Local keeps prompts on your machine; APIs send them out

Locally, your GPU's VRAM decides what you can run

An app you ship to other people usually calls an API or a rented GPU. Your own laptop won't serve strangers. Local shines for private experiments and for running coding agents on your own code: see…

What this means for your app

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