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Practical, numbers-first explanations of provider pricing, deployment shapes, and the trade-offs behind the monthly bill.
LLM provider comparison 2026
Twenty providers across API, dedicated, and GPU rental. Cheapest provider per popular model, EU-sovereign options, per-provider profiles, and a buyer's decision tree.
Read guide →How to deploy open-source LLMs cheaply
API, dedicated, GPU rental, or self-host — pick the cheapest shape with a decision tree, break-even math, and three worked examples.
Read guide →Self-hosted Llama 3 vs Claude API
Real cost breakdown for self-host vs frontier API: compute, ops, sovereignty, SLA. Three worked scenarios from 5M to 500M tokens/day and a hybrid routing pattern that beats either pure strategy.
Read guide →How we modelled the inference market
Why 'what does it cost to run model X?' has no single answer — and how nfer makes per-token APIs, GPU rentals, and provisioned throughput honestly comparable.
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