Every machine that runs local models, priced

All 56 configurations this site prices, in one table: what each costs, how much of its memory the GPU can use, how many of the 39 open models it holds at 32k of context, the strongest of those, and how long that pair takes to pay for itself rather than renting the same model. Families are in order of what the cheapest of them costs. For the quickest pay-back at a given amount of use, see best buys by usage; for two machines side by side, every head-to-head; for what each model needs before you pick a box, how much memory you need.

The short version: more money buys memory, and memory buys a stronger model in only four steps. Of the 56 machines here, 39 top out at the same model, Qwen3.8 27B: everything from the Mac mini M4, 32GB at $999 to the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, 96GB at $18,000, card only. Five hold something stronger, and the cheapest of those is the Mac Studio M3 Ultra, 256GB at $7,099, while two hold all 39 models on the list. Between those steps the money buys speed, spare memory and a longer window rather than a better model. The Mac mini M4, 32GB and the Mac Studio M3 Ultra, 256GB are discontinued, so their prices are the ones they launched at.

Pay-back runs the other way, because the strongest model a machine holds is also the slowest thing it can run. At 500k tokens a day on that model, the quickest figure in the table is 13 years, on the Mac mini M4, 32GB, and the slowest is 1,044 years. Nothing here pays for itself inside a decade at that usage. What changes the answer is using the machine much harder, or running a smaller model on it, and best buys by usage ranks both.

Usable memory is what the GPU can address, which is less than the memory fitted: on a Mac it follows the macOS wired limit, and on a graphics card it is the VRAM less the gigabyte llama.cpp leaves free. The count is of the 39 current open models at 32k; ask for a longer window and the cache grows, so fewer fit, and each machine's own page gives the length it takes every model to. Pay-back is that machine running the strongest model it holds, at 500k tokens a day, 15:1 input to output, $0.17 per kWh, and today's API prices held flat; a smaller model on the same machine pays back sooner, which is what best buys ranks. Graphics cards are priced as the card alone, so add the PC around one before comparing it with a complete computer. All seven cards here are ranked by what each one holds. A discontinued machine is priced at what it launched at, which is not a price you can pay today. Each price opens the calculator on that machine running the model beside it.