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Self-Hosted Open-Source LLMs vs. API Models: An Enterprise Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Breakdown

A definitive financial and architectural analysis of self-hosting open-source LLMs vs commercial APIs: GPU hardware amortization, vLLM continuous batching, MLOps headcount, and the exact token volume breakeven threshold.

#LLM Economics #Total Cost of Ownership #vLLM #Open-Source AI

9/24/2026

19 min

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