How I cut my AI inference bill by 80% - moving from OpenAI to self-hosted models
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My OpenAI bill was $400/month. After moving to self-hosted models on a single Hetzner GPU box, it's $80/month and falling. Here's the playbook. The OpenAI bill I was using GPT-4o for ~3M input tokens/day for a RAG app and ~500K output tokens/day. About $450/month. The killer was the output tokens.…
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How I cut my AI inference bill by 80% - moving from OpenAI to self-hosted models