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Show HN: Virtual Private LLM, fixed fee with no usage or token limits

Solheim AI launched Virtual Private LLM (VPL), a flat-fee service providing private, EU-hosted LLM instances with no token or usage limits, starting at €15.00 per month for one instance with a 64k context window. The service runs open-weight models like Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and DeepSeek V4 Flash on EU-owned infrastructure, with an OpenAI-compatible API for integration with tools like Cline and VS Code.

read5 min views1 publishedAug 13, 2026

Issue 01 — a VPS for language models · sign-up open

Not the tokens.

A private LLM instance on EU hardware, for a flat monthly fee. Nothing counts down and nothing resets — the only limits are how many requests you run at the same moment and how much context each one gets, and you set both yourself.

No token meter.

No rolling usage window.

No request cut off halfway

through your task.

No surprise bills — your instance

at one fixed monthly cost.

EU hardware, EU jurisdiction.

01 / The idea

If you've bought a server, you know this product. #

One project gets one VPL: one endpoint, one key, two numbers to size it.

A slider sets how many instances the project runs, and an instance is one request in flight. Three instances means three things at once: your agent, your editor, your test loop. A second dial sets the context window each of those requests gets. The API is OpenAI-compatible, so Cline, ZooCode, VS Code BYOK and your own backend all talk to it unmodified.

01 On a VPS — vCPU + RAM

Instance count

One slider, one dial. Inside that size, run as much as you like, all day.

02 On a VPS — no request quota

No usage window

Nothing counts down and nothing resets. You are never locked out mid-task.

03 On a VPS — flat monthly invoice

Flat monthly invoice

No surprise bills: a busy sprint costs exactly what a quiet one costs. Tokens are counted for you and never billed to you.

04 On a VPS — OS image

Open-weight model

Pick and pin the model. Swap it by changing one string, no migration.

05 On a VPS — one server, one host

One project, one VPL

Keys, usage and limits stay per project — nothing is shared by accident.

06 On a VPS — datacenter region

EU-only region

Nothing leaves EU jurisdiction — GDPR and AI Act posture by construction.

02 / Migration

Two minutes, two fields. #

Nothing to install, nothing to rewrite.

01

Create a project

A project is one VPL: its own endpoint, its own key, its own usage. Name it after the thing it serves.

02

Set the instance count

One slider decides how many requests run at once. Move it up for a week of parallel agents, back down after. That is the whole capacity model.

03

Point your tool at it

Base URL and key into Cline, ZooCode, VS Code BYOK, or any OpenAI SDK. Nothing else in your setup changes.

export OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://api.solheim.ai/v1
export OPENAI_API_KEY=slh_live_9f3c…

03 / Sovereignty

EU-hosted, all the way down. #

Sovereignty is an architecture, not a checkbox.

01 Infrastructure

GPUs at EU-owned providers in EU datacenters. No US hyperscaler in the serving path, so no CLOUD Act exposure to write into your DPA.

02 Models

Open weights under permissive licenses, pinned per instance and run by us. Your prompts are not training data — not ours, not anyone's.

03 Routing

Requests never leave the region, and this page loads nothing from a third-party origin — no US CDN, no analytics, no fonts phoning home.

The library

01 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

The default for day-to-day work: diffs, tests, refactors and tool-calling agents. A mixture-of-experts model: 35B parameters in total, three billion of them active per token, price-value like nothing else.

02 DeepSeek V4 Flash

deepseek-v4-flash-0731

For more demanding work: near frontier open-weight performance on your own reserved compute

Request a model

open weights · permissive licence

04 / Pricing

Two dials: how many, how much context. #

Instances × context window × a flat monthly rate. Still no tokens, no tiers and no overage — there is nothing on this invoice that can surprise you.

  • Your window
  • 64k
  • Model
  • one per project
  • Beyond your count
  • queues, never 429
  • Overage
  • there isn't any

€15.00 /month · 1 × 64k × €15.00

Excludes VAT, which is added at checkout based on where you are.

Start at this size

Beyond ten, or beyond 128k

Dedicated & enterprise

A dedicated GPU or a MIG slice of one — no shared neighbours, no contention with anyone else's agents. A 256k window lives here too: it is four times the cache of the largest shared size, so it gets its own card rather than a queue. Private networking, a signed DPA and invoicing rather than a card. Priced against the hardware you need, not per request.

Let's talk

Contact us

05 / Readership

Who it's for. #

Same product, same dials, same arithmetic.

01 Developers running coding agents

You live in Cline, ZooCode or VS Code and you hit the window most weeks. Three instances is an agent, an editor and a test loop running at once — for as long as the day lasts.

02 Founders who need an inference backend

Your product needs a private LLM behind it, with a bill that doesn't move when traffic does. Point your backend at the same endpoint and size it the same way.

It is one product, not two. What changes between these is what you point at the endpoint — not the pricing, not the API, not the machine.

06 / From the blog

Notes #

All notes

The Break-Even Point Between Metered Tokens and Your Own LLM Per-token pricing is the right way to buy inference until a certain volume. This is the arithmetic for finding that volume, and what to do on either side of it. Read

How to Replace Claude Code With Your Own Private LLM Swap the closed-source agent for an open harness and a model endpoint you control. Same workflow, no usage windows, no data leaving your control. Read

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