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Self-Hosted LLM: Essential Llama TCO Comparison Guide

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A self-hosted LLM can lower inference costs, protect sensitive data, and reduce dependence on external providers—but only when utilization justifies the infrastructure. Cloud APIs eliminate upfront hardware investment, while private deployments exchange variable token charges for compute, power, op…

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