How to Run Local LLMs and Open WebUI on a Cloud VPS (Goodbye $20/mo ChatGPT...
How to Run Local LLMs and Open WebUI on a Cloud VPS (Goodbye $20/mo ChatGPT Plus)
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If you pay $20/month for ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro, you are paying $240 every single year for:
Rate limits during peak working hours.
Cloud providers retaining your confidential code and business prompts for model training.
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A Blog post by Daya Shankar on Hugging Face
