Energy & cost
What does your local AI actually cost?
Pick your GPU and region. We’ll show monthly electricity, CO₂, and how it compares to just calling a hosted API.
Setup
Result
- Energy / day
- 1.06 kWh
- Energy / month
- 31.9 kWh
- Electricity cost / month
- $5.27
- CO₂ / month
- 12.5 kg
- Effective $/1 M output tokens
- $0.290
Pure electricity cost per million tokens generated. Excludes hardware amortisation.
Vs. paying per token
Local cost: $0.290/1M tokens (pure electricity). Breakeven = tokens/month where local hardware pays off vs cloud.
DeepSeek V3
$0.27 in / $1.10 out per Mtok$24.86/mo equiv.
breakeven at 3.8M tok/mo
Local saves $19.59/mo
Llama 3.1 8B (Groq)
$0.05 in / $0.08 out per Mtok$2.36/mo equiv.
breakeven at 40.5M tok/mo
API cheaper by $2.91/mo
Gemini 2.0 Flash
$0.10 in / $0.40 out per Mtok$9.07/mo equiv.
breakeven at 10.5M tok/mo
Local saves $3.80/mo
GPT-4o mini
$0.15 in / $0.60 out per Mtok$13.61/mo equiv.
breakeven at 7.0M tok/mo
Local saves $8.34/mo
Claude Haiku 4.5
$0.80 in / $4.00 out per Mtok$87.09/mo equiv.
breakeven at 1.1M tok/mo
Local saves $81.82/mo
GPT-4o
$2.50 in / $10.00 out per Mtok$226.80/mo equiv.
breakeven at 422K tok/mo
Local saves $221.53/mo
"equiv." = what you’d pay the API to generate the same token volume your local hardware produces, assuming ~1:1 input:output tokens per chat. Breakeven = minimum tokens/month for local to be cheaper. Excludes hardware amortisation.
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