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Are inference providers able to make any margins?

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Spoke with many providers who lurk in this sub, plus met folks who work in inference. For a 10k monthly revenue, a provider was able to retain only 200 dollars in profit due to GPU costs. Their customers were negotiating the prices down to what other players cost for same, and it feels like major p…

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  1. 2026-09-10 23:04 · r/LocalLLaMA
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