GPU VPS vs API tokens: the break-even point
Renting a GPU by the hour beats per-token API billing only above a certain volume. Here is the formula and the monthly token count where it flips.
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What it takes to self-host Kimi K3
Kimi K3 is 2.8 trillion parameters. Here is the VRAM arithmetic, the KV cache math, and the three honest ways to run it without a 32 GPU cluster.
Ollama vs vLLM: which LLM server to run
Ollama is a convenience layer for one user, on CPU if needed. vLLM is a throughput engine for GPUs. Pick by workload, with the real commands for both.
VPS with GPU: when you actually need one
A GPU on a VPS buys batch throughput and room for large models. Quantized chat models, embeddings and Whisper small run fine on CPU. Start there, measure.