Developer finds DeepSeek via OpenCode costs $1.14/day, making hardware payoff take decades

A developer shared findings on social media showing that running DeepSeek through the OpenCode Go client costs approximately $1.14 per day in API expenses. At that spending rate, purchasing a dual DGX hardware setup to self-host the model would take around 24 years to break even. The post sparked discussion on Hacker News about the economics of self-hosting AI models versus using cloud-based API services. The comparison highlights the significant upfront capital cost of high-end AI hardware relative to modest daily API usage costs.