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What does it cost per hour to run Llama 70B on a rented GPU, and which card?
One 48 GB card holds Llama 3.3 70B at Q4_K_M (a 42.5 GB file), and on Nov 3, 2026 the cheapest was an RTX A6000 on Vast from about $0.35 an hour on-demand, or an A40 or RTX A6000 on Runpod at $0.59. When you need an 80 GB card instead, what an evening really costs, and when a per-token API is cheaper than any GPU.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min