If my company pays for it, i do not care.
If i have a hobby project were it is about converting an idea in my spare time in what i want, i'm happily paying 20$. I just did something like this on the weekend over a few hours. I really enjoy having small tools based on single html page with javascript and json as a data store (i ask it to also add an import/export feature so i can literaly edit it in the app and then save it and commit it).
For the main agent i'm waiting for like the one which will read my emails and will have access tos ystems? I would love a local setup but just buying some hardware today costs still a grant and a lot of energy. Its still sign cheaper to just use a subscription.
Not sure what you mean though regarding speed, they are super fast. I do not have a setup at home which can run 200-300 tps.
you can get subscriptions to use the APIs, from synthetic, or ollama, fireworks.
But if i would use some API stuff, probably openrouter, isn't that easer to switch around and also have zero konwledge savety?
i then decided to trust one company with most stuff.
Also as I said, I would use something different for my personal stuff. But i'm waiting for the right hardware etc.
And since I saw a few other comments talking about these, do you have any preference on different cloud providers with ZDR? I look every once in a while and want to switch to completely open models and/or at least ZDR so I can start doing things like summarizing e-mail. I'm thinking I can probably split my use between some sort of cloud api and claude code for heavier tasks.
other cloud providers, kind of depends on the use case. fireworks. inception labs is frontier for the use case. otherwise a lot of the time I use TEE. tinfoil is very good, easy to integrate using their cli proxy, fairly expensive. phala is less expensive but slow, more work to integrate.
Owning is expensive. Not owning is also expensive.
Energy in germany is at 35 cent/kwh and skyrocketed to 60 when we had the russian problem.
I'm planning to buy a farm and add cheap energy but this investment will still take a little bit of time. Until then, space is sparse.
there are many cloud providers of zero data retention llm APIs, and even cryptographic attestation.
they are not throttled, you can get an agreed rate limit.
Fast: inception labs or cerebras
Confidential: tinfoil.sh, phala
TTS/STT: groq
Routers: vercel (or openrouter if they don't have the model).
Search: unsolved, just can't get zdr, local hosted.
i just refuse to use openai/google/anthropic subscriptions, i only use open source models with ZDR tokens.
- i like privacy in my work, and i share when i wish. somehow we accepted that our prompts and work may be read and moderated by employees. would you accept people moderating what you write in excel, google docs, apple pages?
- i want a consistent tool, not something that is quantised one day, slow one day, a different harness one day, stops randomly.
- unless i am missing something, the closed source models are too slow for me to watch what they are doing. i feel comfortable with monitoring something, usually at about 200-300tps on GLM 5. above that it might even be too fast!