LLM Inference Costs Drop Below $3 with B200s, Yet API Prices Stay High
AccBalanced · x · 2026-07-30
A recent post highlights that serving large models is becoming significantly cheaper. Even with expensive B200 GPUs, vLLM, and without major optimizations, inference costs drop below $3. However, these savings aren't reflected in API endpoints, leaving users frustrated by the lack of affordable services like a $5 Kimi endpoint.
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