Local AI costs €0.12/hour: is paying for frontier models cheaper?

A LocalLLaMA user says running Qwen locally on an AMD 7900 XTX plus 9800X3D costs about €0.12 per hour, based on a local electricity price of €0.25/kWh. The user asks whether frontier models are actually cheaper per million tokens, or whether the calculation is wrong.

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