The self-hosting math for LLMs quietly inverted this year
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Most of the self-hosting advice you'll find was written against 2024 assumptions. API pricing is expensive and linear, hardware is fixed and amortizes, so past some volume you break even. Buy the GPU, stop paying rent. Two things broke that this year, and they moved in opposite directions. Inferenc…
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- 2026-09-07 15:07 · DEV Community — AI
The self-hosting math for LLMs quietly inverted this year