Rent a GPU or Buy One for LLMs: Break-Even Hours and Years, Worked Out
Rent a GPU or buy one for LLMs? We use RunPod’s public prices and Chinese used-card prices to find break-even hours for the RTX 3090 and 4090.
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DeepSeek Local Deployment Cost: From ¥8,000 to ¥1M, Three Routes and the Break-Even Against the API
DeepSeek local deployment cost: hardware prices, electricity and official API rates for distills, V4.1 Flash and the API, with break-even months worked out.
