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Your $200 Cursor bill vs.
$6 of electricity.

In 10 seconds, find out if self-hosting Kimi or Qwen saves you $180/mo without tanking your SWE-bench score.

Usage
Mac you already own
Electricity region
API
Claude Code / Cursor / ChatGPT
CheapestBest quality
$22.5/mo
71.4
quality (SWE-bench Verified) source
Claude Sonnet 4.6
breakdown
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 input tokens$9.0
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 output tokens$13.5
Local Mac
OSS model on your machine
Pick a Mac tier to see local-hosting cost.
VPS GPU
RunPod, start/stop
$83.4/mo
59.6
quality (Aider polyglot) source
Qwen3-Coder 32B
breakdown
  • RunPod A100 80 GB @ $1.39/hr × 2h × 30d (start/stop)$83.4

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Token budgets per usage tier are estimates based on Anthropic's worked example of ~65k tokens per active coding hour. Mac wattages are community-benchmark averages, not Apple-published numbers. Prices from primary provider pages, fetched 2026-04-14.