Technical article
Local GPU Cluster vs. Cloud LLM APIs for Parallel Coding Agents
Cloud APIs buy elastic capacity and rapid model access; local GPUs buy predictable marginal cost, data locality and scheduling control. Nexus treats models as replaceable workers behind a stable delivery contract, so sensitive or high-volume coding lanes can use local inference while selected reasoning gates can still use approved APIs. The decision is made per role and workload, not as an all-or-nothing platform bet.
- Model route per specialist role
- Fixed local capacity for sustained workloads
- Elastic API capacity for peaks or specialist review
- One evidence and governance contract across both
