Self-Hosted LLM: Essential Llama TCO Comparison Guide

What it is

<p>A <strong>self-hosted LLM</strong> can look expensive beside a cloud API’s simple per-token pricing. However, that comparison changes when workloads become continuous, data cannot leave a controlled environment, or API usage grows unpredictably. The correct decision requires a t

Why it matters

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Source: Blog — https://dev.to/vladimir_lialine_b2e67374/self-hosted-llm-essential-llama-tco-comparison-guide-1j0j