Local LLMs vs Cloud APIs: Building Offline-First AI Workflows

Local LLMs vs Cloud APIs: Building Offline-First AI Workflows Your AI workflow just went offline: Here's why developers are running models locally and saving thousands on API bills. Last month, a solo developer posted in the Indie Hackers forum about slashing his monthly OpenAI bill from $2,400 to $180 by moving 80% of his inference workload to a local Mistral 7B instance. The remaining $180 covers the edge cases his local setup can't handle. That ratio — 80% local, 20% cloud — is becoming th...