Self-Hosting LLMs vs Cloud APIs: Cost, Performance & Privacy Compared (2026)

Self-Hosting LLMs vs Cloud APIs: Cost, Performance & Privacy Compared (2026) The question used to be simple: can you even run a useful LLM locally? In 2026, the answer is definitively yes. Open-weight models like Llama 3.3, Qwen 3, DeepSeek R1, and M...