How Much Does It Actually Cost to Run a Local LLM? (Euros per Million Tokens, Measured)
, so it’s basically free.” I’ve said that, you’ve probably said that, and it’s the kind of claim that sounds true until someone measures it. So I measured it. The box is “ardi” — one openSUSE machine with a single RTX 3090 (24 GB). On it I ran a controlled benchmark: three local models served by…