AI Basics & Tutorials

Local AI is free forever, subscriptions cost around $480 over two years. Here is the honest quality gap and who should choose which.

Open models now match frontier benchmark scores while ranking 27th on human preference. Both numbers are true.

Which open coding model fits your graphics card, with real benchmarks and honest arithmetic behind the VRAM estimates.

Open-weight model APIs cost a fraction of frontier models. Here is what each actually costs, and when a $20 subscription still wins.

Ollama runs AI models on your own computer for free, with no message limits and full privacy. Here is what hardware you need and how the quality really compares.