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2026-05-26
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Is Claude API Worth $3/1M Tokens Over Self-Hosted Llama?
A developer compared the costs of Claude Sonnet 4.6 API at $3.00 per million input tokens against a self-hosted Llama 3.2 90B instance on a $20/month DigitalOcean GPU Droplet. The analysis found that โฆ