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Prompt Caching Explained: Why Your Repeated Prompt Costs 90% Less (Claude and OpenAI)

Neon read both vendors' docs on 3 October 2026. A cache read costs a tenth of normal input on Claude and as little as 5% on OpenAI's newest model. A cache that misses costs more than none at all.

Aliteq Team · 3d ago · 9 min

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Software

Serverless explained: what Cloudflare Workers and AWS Lambda really bill you for

There is still a server. You just stop owning it. Here is how Workers and Lambda differ in how they run your code, start cold, and charge you, with the real list prices and the one month our own site hit the free plan's limit.

Aliteq Team · Oct 6 · 9 min

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BuildInteractive

Free until people show up: what a live app actually costs

Hosting is renting the always-on computer your app runs on — mostly free until real users arrive, then metered where it counts, and AI calls are the surprise line. Try the calculator.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

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H100 vs B200 rental cost: the Blackwell premium, and the one number that flips it

A B200 rents for 2–3.5× an H100. Per hour the H100 wins almost everything — but per token, a fully-utilised B200 can be cheaper. Here's the real comparison, dated.

Aliteq Team · Sep 23 · 7 min

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RunPod Serverless pricing, explained: why it looks pricier but usually isn't

Serverless per-hour rates look higher than a pod — but they bill per second and scale to zero. The whole decision is one number: how busy your GPU actually is.

Aliteq Team · Sep 23 · 7 min

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the cheapest way to rent an H100 in 2026 is under $2 an hour — here's where

The same H100 costs $1.73/hr on one provider and $6.16 on another. Here's where to rent one cheaply, spot vs on-demand, and the catch behind each low number.

Aliteq Team · Sep 23 · 6 min

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what does it actually cost to run a local LLM? the electricity bill nobody calculates

Everyone talks about the GPU price, but a local AI rig has a running cost too. It's smaller than you fear — but if you're in Europe, it's not nothing. Here's the real math.

Aliteq Team · Jul 28 · 9 min

A cloud GPU workstation for fine-tuning AI models

the best cloud GPU for fine-tuning an LLM costs about a dollar — here's the one to rent and why

Fine-tuning sounds expensive until you realize you can rent the perfect GPU for it by the hour. For small models a 4090 does it for pennies; for bigger jobs an A100 is the workhorse. Here's the cheapest path.

Aliteq Team · Jul 28 · 9 min

A data center GPU for running large AI models

the cheapest way to run Llama 70B isn't buying two GPUs — it's renting one big one for a couple dollars

A dual-GPU rig to run Llama 70B costs $2,000+. But you can rent an A100 that holds it for around a dollar an hour. For anything but constant use, the cloud wins big.

Aliteq Team · Jul 28 · 9 min

A scale weighing cloud versus local computing

should you rent a cloud GPU or buy your own for AI? the break-even is simpler than you think

Everyone frames it as cloud vs local like it's a religion. It's just arithmetic: how many hours will you actually use it? For a $1,000 used 3090 vs ~$0.22/hr on-demand rental, the answer is about 4,500 hours.

Aliteq Team · Jul 28 · 9 min

Cloud GPU servers in a data center for AI rental

the cheapest way to rent a GPU for AI in 2026 costs less than a coffee an hour — here's the live math

You don't need to buy a $2,000 graphics card to run big AI models. Renting one by the hour starts around $0.12/hr (RTX 3090, Vast spot, 22 Sep 2026). Here's what GPUs actually cost to rent right now.

Aliteq Team · Jul 28 · 9 min

A high-end GPU workstation used for AI model training

everyone thinks fine-tuning an AI model costs a fortune. tuning Llama 8B on your own GPU costs about a coffee

The scary numbers you've seen are for training models from scratch. Fine-tuning an existing Llama 8B on your own data with QLoRA fits a 24GB card, uses ~14GB, and costs under a dollar per run if you rent. Here's the real math.

Aliteq Team · Jul 28 · 9 min