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Self-Hosted LLM vs API Break-Even: Tokens per Day by Model (Live GPU Prices)

Renting a GPU for an open model looks cheaper than paying per token until you price the same model on the cheapest API. We did it for four open models, from Llama 3.1 8B to Llama 3.3 70B, with live GPU rates from our own tracker and list prices read on 2 October 2026. Against the same model's API, one rented GPU almost never wins. Against a frontier model, it wins from about 2 to 6 million tokens a day.

Aliteq Team · Oct 2 · 12 min

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Private LLM cost for EU companies (2026): EU API tiers vs open models vs your own GPU

Your company wants AI on internal documents without the prompts leaving the EU. We priced every route on the vendors' own pages: OpenAI's and Azure's EU tiers, Claude through AWS and Google, Mistral, French and German open-model APIs, and a GPU of your own. The EU premium is 0% to 75%, and for most companies the cheapest private option isn't a server.

Aliteq Team · Sep 27 · 14 min