I Spend $800 a Month on Claude. So I Built My Own AI. | EP 35

Cyber Security Diaries from StationX · Jul 30, 2026 · 21m

I pay $800 a month for Claude. So I priced the local AI hardware to replace it — for one person, a small team, and a whole company. Here's what's worth buying.

Real hardware, real benchmarks, real payback maths. The Mac Studio M3 Ultra vs an RTX 5090 build for solo users, two Mac Studios running DeepSeek V4 Flash over Thunderbolt 5 for small teams, and the 8x Nvidia H200 rack for enterprises — each scored against SWE-Bench Verified and your actual subscription bill, with an honest yes/no per setup.

📺 CHAPTERS

0:00 - $800/Month Claude vs Local AI Alternatives

1:03 - Hardware Price Shifts: GPU…