CALCULATOR

Payback calculator: cloud AI or your own server

A simple comparison: what you pay the cloud today versus what the same load costs on your own hardware. No market averages, just your numbers from your invoices and rental quotes.

Updated 22 Sep 2026Calculate video memory for your model size

Requests per monthCalls to the model per month: chat messages, documents, emails. Tokens per requestQuestion plus answer. Roughly: a short reply is 300, an email 1500, a document review 6000. Cloud price per 1M tokensTake it from your invoice or provider price list. If input and output differ, use an average. Your server, per monthRental with a GPU, or depreciation of bought hardware plus power and hosting. One-off setupInstallation, fine-tuning, integration, handover. Paid once. Maintenance, per monthUpdates, monitoring, changes. Put zero if you run it yourself.

This is a rough estimate, not a quote. It ignores downtime, headroom for peak load, the cost of your own time, and the fact that a cloud model and an open model answer differently. Compare them on your own tasks before deciding.

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An open model can run on your own server: data stays in-house, there is no per-request fee, and the model can be fine-tuned on your documents.

SelectThe model and size for your task and hardware budget
DeployOn your server or in a closed network, with an API
Fine-tuneOn your data, or connect a knowledge base
IntegrateInto your CRM, ERP, bot, website or team chat

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