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Stop Overpaying for APIs: When to Swap Your Cloud LLM for a Local SLM 🛠️

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Let's face it: using an enterprise cloud LLM API to parse basic JSON, route support tickets, or clean up markdown is massive overkill. It's slow, expensive, and leaves your app vulnerable to third-party downtime. +-------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+ | Feature | Cloud LLM | Local SLM (<15B) | +-------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+ | Deployment | Cloud API Only | Local, Edge, On-Prem | | Latency | High (Network bound) | Low (Local hardware) | | Data Privacy | Third-party risk | 100% Secure / Offline | | Cost Structure | Pay-

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