About

LLMRequirements.com is a free, ad-free hardware picker for people who want to run open-weights language, image, and video models on their own gear.

What this site does

You tell us what you want to do — a use case, a memory target, a budget, or a specific open-source model. We match it against ~36 real builds (Apple Silicon, NVIDIA consumer + datacenter, AMD Strix Halo + Instinct, Intel Arc Pro, and multi-GPU rigs) and surface the candidates with current prices, community-measured tokens-per-second, idle and active power draw, and a five-year total-cost-of-ownership estimate.

Prices auto-convert to your local currency using live FX rates from frankfurter.app. Regional Amazon links route to your local marketplace.

Where the numbers come from

• Performance (tg/s, s/img, s/clip) — single-stream token-generation measured on llama.cpp Q4_K_M unless noted otherwise. Source URLs are linked on each build's page.
• Prices — vendor MSRP or the lowest current major-retailer listing at the date in the footer. Used-market pricing for older GPUs (e.g. RTX 3090) reflects typical eBay completed-sales medians.
• Power draw — wall-meter readings from public benchmarks, idle and under sustained inference. Power varies materially with workload, so treat these as ballpark.

Data is refreshed roughly weekly. The last refreshed date is shown in the footer of the home page.

What this site is not

• Not a synthetic benchmark — we don't run our own tests. Every speed claim is sourced from a third party we trust.
• Not a buying agent — we don't take orders, hold inventory, or warranty hardware.
• Not a model leaderboard. We use model ratings to size memory and select use-case relevance, not to crown winners.

Who runs it

LLM Requirements is a Netherlands-registered business.

• Business name: LLM Requirements
• KVK-nummer (Dutch Chamber of Commerce): 42058037

Contact

• General & corrections: info@llmrequirements.com
• Press & media: press@llmrequirements.com

How we make money

The site is free and ad-free. We participate in the Amazon Associates Programme: Amazon "Buy" links are affiliate links, so we earn a small commission on qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Commission never influences what we list or how we rank it. See the affiliate disclosure for the full policy.

Found something wrong?

Spec error, dead link, stale price, missing build? Email info@llmrequirements.com with the build name and the correction. Fixes go live within a week, usually within a day.