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Local AI Inference: A Decision Framework for 2026
Cloud inference is cheap at small volume and expensive at scale. The crossover, priced both ways, sits near 20,000 requests a day.
Topic 02
Agents, local inference, and what adoption looks like after the pilot.
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Cloud inference is cheap at small volume and expensive at scale. The crossover, priced both ways, sits near 20,000 requests a day.
An agent that reads email and holds credentials is not a chatbot with more features. It is a new identity in your environment, and it needs the same controls.
The pilots that fail are rarely the ones with the weakest model. They are the ones where nobody mapped the handoffs before automating them.