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Economicsecon-070P2

Self-hosted open-source models eliminate per-token API fees.

Running Llama 3 70B on 2x A100 GPUs…Running Llama 3 70B on 2x A100 GPUs costs approximately $3.40/hour vs $15/MTok output on GPT-4o, breaking even at approximately 50K output tokens/hour.

Context & Methodology

Without self-hosting capability, organisations are locked into per-token pricing that scales linearly with usage volume.

Applicable Use Cases

analysis

Applies To

openaianthropicgoogle

Primary Impact

cost

Confidence Level

Medium

Platform Status

Built

Implementation Effort

high

Recommendation

test

Execution Priority

P2

Dependencies & Conflicts

Conflicts with:

Put This Evidence to Work

Use the STCO framework to implement findings like this in structured, testable prompts.

CoT prompting improved GSM8K math benchmark accuracy from 17.7% to 58.1% on PaLM 540B.Wei et al., 'Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Re…