AI Ownership & Capex Payback Calculator

Local AI Rig vs. Cloud API Burn

See your 3-year AI subscription & API burn, when a locally owned machine pays for itself, and download a 9:16 Instagram Story result card.

1. Your AI Usage & Hardware Budget

Cloud AI Spend / Seat€120/mo

Active Seats / Developers1

Target Local Hardware Capex€500

Daily Token Throughput2.5M tok/day

Primary WorkloadRequire on-premise / private code & data residency

Local rig pays for itself in 5.3 months

3-Yr Cloud Burn

€4,320

Payback

5.3 mo

3-Yr Net Savings

+€2,884

Est. Speed

~18 tok/s

Matched Spec: Compact MoE Node (€500 Class) (32 GB · 4-bit IQ4_XS + Tiered SSD Expert Cache)Est. power: €2/mo

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