which hosted model is actually worth paying for

[routecraft]

Spent some time on this today and wanted to compare notes.

I'm comparing two approaches here: keep it simple on 4090, or squeeze more out of the stack and deal with the complexity.

Interested in tradeoffs more than fan loyalty.

[routecraft]

Spent some time on this today and wanted to compare notes.

Appreciate the detail. I ended up in about the same place using Ollama. Worth rechecking your defaults though, because one bad assumption can make the rest of the thread look confusing.

[tensorriver]

I'd start with the simpler stack.