Self-Host Open LLMs with vLLM: A Throughput and Latency Playbook

1Key Takeaways

• Originally published on AI Tech Connect .
• When self-hosting on vLLM beats an API Every team that ships a language-model feature eventually faces the same fork in the road: keep paying a managed API by the token, or self-host an open-weight model on your own graphics processing units?
• There is no universal answer, but there is a clear decision rule.
• Self-hosting on vLLM wins when three things are true at once.