NVIDIA NIM Economics: Where Self-Host Beats Every API

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 …

vLLM vs TensorRT-LLM vs SGLang: H100 Benchmarks 2026

Choosing between vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, and SGLang in 2026 comes down to three questions: how many models you serve, how fast you need to go live, and whether your workload shares prefixes. Benchmarks on H100 80GB with Llama 3.3 70B at FP8 show TensorRT-LLM delivering 13% higher throughput than vLLM at …