Cost Local

node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/local-cost.mjs --tok-per-s 80 --busy 0.25 --compare claude-haiku-4-5

Inputs (all the user's): --watts-idle, --watts-active, --kwh, --hw-price, --life-years, --resale. --tok-per-s is required and must be a measured generation speed.

Rules

• Cost = fixed (amortisation + idle power, paid busy or not) + marginal (extra watts while generating). Utilisation decides the answer: always show the table at 5/25/50/100% busy.
• It is an estimate from the inputs; say so. Nothing is measured.
• Compare against a same-capability hosted model, not a frontier one; price alone is a poor reason to buy a GPU for sporadic use.
• Read real counts from the server (Ollama eval_count/prompt_eval_count on the native API, llama.cpp timings, vLLM /metrics), not the lossy OpenAI-compatible usage, and count model reloads (load_duration) as overhead.