A single NVIDIA H100 GPU running a self-hosted NIM container costs roughly $1,950 per month on RunPod at $2.69 per hour, yet serves the same OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions endpoint as GPT-4.1 — which bills $6 per million blended tokens. The crossover where NIM beats every per-token API sits around 300–500 million …
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Reasoning Models Cost 15x. Adaptive Depth Saves 60%
Send one complex query to OpenAI o3 and it can burn 10,000 to 50,000 reasoning tokens before emitting a single visible word — all billed at the $60-per-million output rate, all hidden in a thinking block that never appears in the response (source). Reasoning models are the single biggest line-item …