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I Spend $800 a Month on Claude. So I Built My Own AI. | EP 35
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I pay $800 a month for Claude. So I priced the local AI hardware to replace it — for one person, a small team, and a whole company. Here's what's worth buying.
Real hardware, real benchmarks, real payback maths. The Mac Studio M3 Ultra vs an RTX 5090 build for solo users, two Mac Studios running DeepSeek V4 Flash over Thunderbolt 5 for small teams, and the 8x Nvidia H200 rack for enterprises — each scored against SWE-Bench Verified and your actual subscription bill, with an honest yes/no per setup.
📺 CHAPTERS
0:00 - $800/Month Claude vs Local AI Alternatives
1:03 - Hardware Price Shifts: GPU, RAM, and Drives
2:03 - Solo User Local AI: Mac Studio M3 Ultra
2:45 - RTX 5090 PC Build Alternative
3:39 - Best Single-User Model: Qwen 3.6 27B
4:48 - Qwen vs Claude Opus on SWE-Bench Verified
6:23 - Payback Math vs Claude Max Subscriptions
6:57 - Who Should Build the Personal Local AI Tier
7:37 - Small Business Setup: Two Mac Studios
8:55 - RDMA Over Thunderbolt in macOS 26.2
9:41 - Running DeepSeek V4 Flash Across Two Macs
10:36 - Nvidia RTX 5090 Workstation for Teams
11:18 - DeepSeek V4 Flash Model Deep Dive
12:43 - Automation Tool Landscape Comparison
13:09 - Who Should Build the Team Tier
14:03 - Team Tier Payback Math and API Break-Even
15:51 - Whole Company: 8x Nvidia H200 GPU Rack
17:19 - H200 Speed Reality vs Marketing Claims
18:16 - HIPAA and FISMA Self-Hosting Myths
19:49 - Who Actually Needs On-Prem Enterprise AI
20:36 - Enterprise 3-Year Cost vs API Spend Math
21:12 - Are Chinese Open Weight Models Safe?
🏆 FIND THE BEST LOCAL LLM RIGHT NOW
app.stationx.net/articles/best-local-llm ► The models move fast — which leaderboards to trust, what the licences mean, and how to run the check yourself before you buy anything.
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▶️ WATCH NEXT — SHOULD YOU USE CHINESE AI?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU99pAQcA08 ► I recommend Qwen and DeepSeek in this video. Here's the honest security answer on whether that's safe.
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