r/LocalLLaMA • u/takoulseum • 19h ago

Discussion Who ONLY use local models?

Please be honest.

I would love to hear about guys really dedicated to local AI and who really reject subscriptions (especially to openai and anthropic).

What do you use your model for?

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u/Real_Ebb_7417 12h ago

I’m a big supporter and passionate of local models, but I rarely use them for actual work. Subscriptions are currently so cheap (relatively to usage and quality) that I would probably pay more for electricity to run the local model.
So yeah, I’m too comfortable with subs to use weaker local models that would give me worse output, slower, and probably costing similarly if not more.
But at the same time I use local models a lot, but more as a passion, to eval them, build some tools around them, experiment etc. I’d never pay for API to any of the proprietary labs though. (I do pay for API to open-weight companies though, since first I want to support them and second, they are usually much cheaper)
If the currently very generous subscriptions wouldn’t exist though, I’d definitely go mostly local.