• LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip
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    9 days ago

    Or… honestly, just pay $40 for basically unlimited usage for a year from an API, then roll your own frontend.

    Can you clarify, what you mean by this? Rent a VPS? Or is there a legitimately good place that’ll offer “unlimited” llm api access for $40 / year (and would you have any sort of privacy with this)?

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      9 days ago

      I was thinking of Xiaomi’s Lite coding plan:

      https://platform.xiaomimimo.com/token-plan

      My mistake, it’s $60. But that’s still dirt cheap.

      You can read their terms of service; coding APIs are generally less invasive than something like the ChatGPT app, but don’t bet on any privacy either.

      For my personal setup, I actually run most queries locally, via MiMo 2.5, but send “bulk” privacy-insensetive prompts to the same model on the API, since its so much faster. I kinda use them in parallel.