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Buy vs rent a local LLM rig
Self-hosted AI means the model runs on hardware you keep. Rent means a monthly bill for someone else’s GPU. This calculator only divides a purchase price by a monthly amount you supply.
No cloud price is filled in. A rental listing was not opened, so there is no default hourly rate for Lucebox, a Mac Studio, or a GPU cloud. Lucebox publishes a purchase price, not a rent, on lucebox.com.
Global prices (USD), EUR available. Catalog euros include VAT and stay estimates with an empty source. The dollar conversion uses FX_EUR_USD, currently 1.1195, an estimate. The default is the ECB reference of 1.1195 on 2026-10-14. ECB series.