Mac Studio M5 Max cost analysis: cloud tokens cheaper
At $10k, a Mac Studio M5 Max buys fewer tokens than cloud APIs: 6.2B with Qwen 3.8 Max, 5.7B with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 100B with DeepSeek V4 Flash. Poster argues local inference only for data sovereignty.
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