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Bhanu Pratap Singh
Bhanu Pratap Singh

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LLM API Cost vs Self Host Models

'We Should Self-Host' Is the Most Expensive Decision in AI: When It's Actually Right — SuperML.dev

GPU self-hosting wins on dollars-per-token at scale, but the break-even is almost always 5-20x higher than teams estimate — because they forget power, utilization, ops headcount, and quantization quality loss.

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