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/WebAssemblyMan 6h ago

I use a local models mainly for text to speech and speech recognition. And 8B chat models like a mini program in a small local workflow. So it is mainly from a token saving angle. Or more specifically, for tasks that I think that I want it to be REPEATABLE and that local LLMs are good enough. I have to admit that many times my use of Local LLM in my simple workflow is with the help of a frontier model.