A $20,000 Mac Studio buys you the same number of tokens as $20,000 of cloud API credit. The difference is that the cloud hands them over on demand, and the Mac needs fourteen years of uninterrupted generation to produce them. That number is the reason I stopped sorting open-weight models by benchmark score and started sorting them by what physically fits. Here is the September 2026 snapshot — with a date stamped on it, because half of these figures will be stale by December. The m...