The make-vs-buy curve.

Self-hosting is a capacity decision, not just a price comparison. We measure realized throughput and marginal energy on real hardware, then compute where owning beats renting.

Crossover analysis lands once telemetry from a real GPU host accumulates.

Hardware amortized linearly over 3 years at 30% inference duty cycle; energy priced at $0.25/kWh on marginal watts (power above idle). · methodology