I Ran the Same Embedding Pipeline on Hugging Face Free, Google Colab Free, and My Laptop with Ollama — The "Free" Tiers Cost Me More Than Money
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Everyone's RAG tutorial starts with "just use a free embedding API." So I took the same workload — embed 5,000 document chunks (~2.1M tokens) with a bge-small-class model — and ran it three ways: Hugging Face Serverless free tier, Google Colab free GPU, and Ollama on my own M-series laptop. Same mo…
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I Ran the Same Embedding Pipeline on Hugging Face Free, Google Colab Free, and My Laptop with Ollama — The "Free" Tiers Cost Me More Than Money