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bydhruvil··on How much cost would it take to run a LLMs locally
First, check what LLMs your system can actually handle based on your RAM/VRAM, then choose the model variant accordingly.

If you want to use the model through an API for your website, a good setup would be a dedicated machine/server to host it, since running LLMs locally can consume a lot of memory.

Depending on your hardware, you can look at smaller variants of Gemma or Qwen Coder.

Another option is to use a hosted inference provider. It’ll cost a little, but you’ll usually get much faster inference compared to running locally especially if your system isn’t high-end.