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> The second is to skip the hardware and rent those same open source models from a provider at API rates. For most people this is the right call. You avoid putting thousands of dollars on one GPU setup while configurations are still in flux, you skip the work of squeezing long running performance out of an open model, and you can switch to whatever is cheaper or better next month without reselling a box. Something like OpenRouter makes the move close to a one line change.