Analysis Time Period
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Longer periods help evaluate break-even points for self-hosted infrastructure
Choose Your Use Case
Select a scenario that matches your application, or choose custom for manual setup
Customer Support
High-volume chatbot with short responses
~15k req/day
RAG Pipeline
Document search with large context windows
~5k req/day
Code Assistant
Developer tool with heavy code generation
~3k req/day
Summarization
Process large documents with detailed summaries
~1k req/day
Healthcare
HIPAA-compliant, privacy-first deployment
~8k req/day
Custom Setup
Configure your own traffic and requirements
Manual config
Traffic & Usage
Configure your application's traffic patterns and token usage
Number of API calls per day
Expected monthly traffic growth
Average tokens sent to model (1k tokens ≈ 750 words)
Average tokens generated by model
Model Selection & Configuration
Choose providers and configure deployment-specific requirements
SaaS APIs
True SaaS providers with proprietary models
Requirements
Filters providers with BAA support
Managed Models
Cloud-hosted open-source models
Requirements
May limit provider options
Raw GPUs
Cloud Service Providers (CSP)
Infrastructure Configuration
$120k/year base salary per engineer
2x GPU count for failover redundancy
Datadog/Grafana + alerting (~$350/mo)
Cost Comparison Results
Monthly costs for your configuration
Traffic Growth Impact
With 10% monthly growth over 36 months, your costs will increase significantly due to higher traffic
SaaS APIs
$0
Managed Models
$0
Raw GPUs
$0
12-Month Projection
Calculation Breakdown
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