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At what stage of company growth does it become financially viable to manage custom LLM inference infrastructure rather than relying on managed cloud APIs?

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At what stage of company growth does it become financially viable to manage custom LLM inference infrastructure rather than relying on managed cloud APIs?
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self-hosted LLM inference vs API cost break even GPU utilization token volume 2025 2026 Google ↗
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