What will that LLM feature actually cost to run — and will it keep up? Put in your traffic and token sizes to see monthly inference cost, latency and throughput, and whether a hosted API or self-hosting wins at your scale.
llm-cost.js. Self-host assumes an open model of comparable capability.Estimated inference cost — hosted API
Monthly API cost by model tier
Hosted API vs self-host
Where the cost sits
Caching, routing to the right model, prompt and token diet, and self-host where it pays — without losing quality.