[r/LocalLLaMA]score: 0.18
Why run local? Count the money
May 5, 2026
A Reddit practitioner running Hermes agents on Qwen2.5-397B across a 2-node Spark cluster logged 200M tokens in 5 days, projecting roughly 1.2B tokens monthly. At Artificial Analysis's blended API rate of $1.25 per million tokens, that's approximately $1,500 monthly savings, achieving hardware ROI within 6 months for non-coding agentic workloads like software installation and debugging.
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