which hosted model is actually worth paying for

[routecraft]

I figured I'd ask here before changing everything.

I'm trying to decide whether to keep the current stack or change course. Main question is how people here are handling tokens/sec.

Would appreciate practical advice rather than theory.

This is mostly for local work rather than public serving.

[routecraft]

I tested this tonight. On dual 3090 with Ollama, I saw basically the same behavior. The main thing that moved was latency, not quality.