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Self-Hosted LLM: Essential Llama Deployment TCO Guide

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A self-hosted LLM can reduce inference costs, protect sensitive data, and eliminate dependence on metered cloud APIs—but only when utilization justifies the infrastructure. The real decision is not simply hardware versus API pricing. A defensible total cost of ownership, or TCO, model must include…

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  1. 2026-09-21 22:47 · DEV Community — AI
    Self-Hosted LLM: Essential Llama Deployment TCO Guide

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