u/Flying_Sheek_46241

Is there a general consensus on, from a cost and productivity and quality standpoint, running open source models on high-end Mac Studios or Nvidia GPUs versus subscribing to various tiers of ChatGPT / Codex or Claude Code.

Like if a small company has fucktons of software to be written - and 2-3 very senior programmers who know their shit.. will they run models locally or pay the frontier labs..

Thank you in advance.