Skip to content
HNHacker News·
Not on the current live radar

Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?

AI summary

Sunk Cost, a tool presented on Show HN, helps determine how long it takes for a local LLM rig to pay for itself. Users can adjust assumptions like Electricity, $/kWh, and API speed, tok/s. A key assumption is that API prices will continue to fall. The tool estimates local speed based on memory bandwidth ÷ bytes read per token × when no direct measurements are available, and this estimation is clearly labeled. API speed primarily impacts the time comparison aspect of the analysis.

Time & source

Times shown in UTC

Display time zone: UTC

Local time zone unavailable; showing UTC.

IngestedOffset at this time: UTC+0Sep 15, 2026, 03:01 UTC

Ingested
Sep 15, 2026, 03:01
Source type
Unclassified

Full text isn't available here.

Read at source →
Source·Hacker News·sunkcost.ai