AnalysisAI Models
30 days ago
Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter for LLMs
Running LLMs on M5 Max MacBook Pro costs ~$1.50 per million tokens, while OpenRouter offers comparable models at 1/3 the price and ~2x the speed. Total cost includes electricity at $0.18/kWh and accelerated depreciation of the $4,299 hardware over 3–10 years.