I startup 4 or so projects then go do other things for 4 hours. I don’t have enough energy to steer overnight, but I’m at least “semi afk” for daytime steering. So throughput is king for me, tokens per hour. Not latency or actual tokens per second.

Running locally is even worse for this, because if you're running 4 jobs at once they just run at 1/4 speed. Not literally, you can make up some of the difference with batching, but you have limited resources instead of spreading your requests out on an API provider's nodes.