I've been running an experiment in my home lab for the past four months. My question was simple: with so many solid open-source models dropping every week, does self-hosting still make sense, or has API access quietly won the economics game? After crunching the numbers, the correlation is clear...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/eagerspark/i-ran-the-numbers-on-open-source-ai-apis-vs-gpus-heres-the-verdict-58dp)