> I can run Qwen-2.5-coder 14B on my M2 Max MacBook Pro with 32gb at ~16 tok/sec. At least in my circle, people are budget conscious
Qwen 2.5 32B on openrouter is $0.16/million output tokens. At your 16 tokens per second, 1 million tokens is 17 continuous hours of output.
Openrouter will charge you 16 cents for that.
I think you may want to reevaluate which is the real budget choice here
Edit: elaborating, that extra 16GB ram on the Mac to hold the Qwen model costs $400, or equivalently 1770 days of continuous output. All assuming electricity is free
Qwen 2.5 32B on openrouter is $0.16/million output tokens. At your 16 tokens per second, 1 million tokens is 17 continuous hours of output.
Openrouter will charge you 16 cents for that.
I think you may want to reevaluate which is the real budget choice here
Edit: elaborating, that extra 16GB ram on the Mac to hold the Qwen model costs $400, or equivalently 1770 days of continuous output. All assuming electricity is free