Should we self-host an open model instead?
Self-host when you have the GPUs, the people and a steady load to justify them: nothing beats it for control and unit cost at scale. Use Zanii LLM when you would rather not run inference infrastructure, and when you want an audit trail you did not have to build yourself.
Where they are better
- Complete control over where the hardware sits and who touches it
- Lowest cost per token once utilisation is high and steady
- No dependency on anyone else's availability
Where we are
- No GPUs to buy, operate, patch or keep busy
- A receipt layer that would otherwise be months of work
- Pay only for the tokens you use, with no idle capacity to fund