What is the “middlest” Mac one could get for this? I’m in the market but keep going back and forth between a 64gb m5 pro or “lower end m5 air and screw it I’ll

What is the “middlest” Mac one could get for this? I’m in the market but keep going back and forth between a 64gb m5 pro or “lower end m5 air and screw it I’ll just pay for cloud tokens”. At current prices the 2-3k diff to try to run something local that isn’t as powerful could buy a lot of tokens.