At what usage does owning GPUs beat paying per token? Put in your numbers and see the monthly cost, the break-even point, and the three-year picture.
Commercial APIs typically run a few to tens of dollars per million tokens.
Power assumes 24/7 operation with a 1.4× datacenter overhead (PUE). Ops overhead covers monitoring, maintenance, and cooling on top of power and amortized hardware.
Cloud API / month
$0
On-prem / month*
$0
Total cost of ownership over 3 years
Break-even
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3-year savings
$0
* A planning estimate, not a quote. On-prem cost is amortized hardware + power + ops and assumes the GPUs can serve your volume; a cloud API scales elastically, while on-prem capacity is capped by your hardware's throughput. Real numbers depend on your models, latency targets, and utilization — which is exactly what a scoping call nails down.
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