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Self-Hosted LLM: Essential Llama TCO Comparison Guide

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Choosing between a self-hosted LLM and a cloud API is not simply a hardware-versus-token-price decision. Utilization, staffing, data security, latency, and model optimization can change the economics dramatically. Cloud APIs often cost less during experimentation, while private deployment may deliv…

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