#LLM Economics

2 articles tagged with LLM Economics

The Economics of Self-Hosting LLMs vs API Calls in 2026

The break-even point between renting GPUs and paying per token isn't a fixed number — it moves with your traffic shape, your utilization, and how much ops work you're honest about counting.

7/15/202611 min read

Why Inference Costs Dropped 10x: The Economics Behind Cheaper LLMs

It's not one breakthrough. It's a stack of compounding wins — hardware, serving software, model architecture, and market competition — that quietly made frontier-adjacent intelligence absurdly cheap.

6/30/202611 min read