Open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting. Here's the Math.
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So here's what happened: open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting. Here's the Math. Last quarter I sat down with my cofounder and did the math I should have done six months earlier. We'd been running two A100s on Lambda Labs to serve Qwen3-32B for our internal summarization pipeline. The bill was sitting at around $1,400 a month for what turned out to be roughly 30M tokens of actual traffic. Meanwhile, the same model on the open-source route through Global API would've cost us $8.40 for the…
1Key Takeaways
- So here's what happened: open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting.
- Last quarter I sat down with my cofounder and did the math I should have done six months earlier.
- We'd been running two A100s on Lambda Labs to serve Qwen3-32B for our internal summarization pipeline.
- The bill was sitting at around $1,400 a month for what turned out to be roughly 30M tokens of actual traffic.
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that so here's what happened: open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting.
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