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Self-Hosted LLM TCO: Essential Llama Deployment Guide

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Self-Hosted LLM TCO Starts With the Workload A self-hosted LLM can reduce recurring inference costs and strengthen data control—but only when utilization justifies the infrastructure. Comparing a local Llama deployment with a cloud API requires more than checking token prices. Decision-makers must…

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  1. 2026-09-01 14:08 · DEV Community — AI
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