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Self-Hosted LLM: Proven TCO Guide for Llama Deployment

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Choosing between a self-hosted LLM and a cloud API is not simply a hardware-versus-token pricing decision. The real calculation includes utilization, engineering labor, latency, data governance, redundancy, and model lifecycle costs. Cloud APIs often win during experimentation, while private deploy…

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  1. 2026-09-21 09:52 · DEV Community — AI
    Self-Hosted LLM: Proven TCO Guide for Llama Deployment

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