Serverless vs Dedicated GPU: The Inference Cost Breakeven
The choice is arithmetic with one unknown, and the unknown is your duty cycle. Almost nobody measures it before signing for a month of reserved capacity.
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Open-Weight vs Closed LLMs in 2026: Cost, Quality, Control
Should you call a closed API like Claude or GPT, or self-host an open-weight model like DeepSeek or Qwen? Skip the hot takes. This is a four-axis framework (cost, quality, control, privacy) plus a decision flowchart, using dated June 2026 facts.