Cost Analysis of my $6.4k Local LLM Server
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In three linesTCO analysis of a $6.4k local LLM server with 4x MI100 32GB GPUs and EPYC 48-core CPU. Runs 4 llama.cpp instances with Qwen 3.6 27B on ROCm. Processes 20.4M input tokens and 1.32M output tokens daily. Equivalent API cost: $3,701/year ($308/month). Author emphasizes proper hardware depreciation accounting for realistic TCO.Read source
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