Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

Offline Agentic Coding part 3: Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter. Published 2026-05-17 Apple silicon costs more than OpenRouter. At ~50-100 watts under load, and ~$0.20 per kWh, my M5 MacbookPro will cost a few cents per hour. Accelerated depreciation (if any) from shortening the lifespan of the device will be more expensive than the electricity. At a few tens of tokens per second this work...