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Whilst it's not economically feasible to self-host, using premier OSS models like Kimi K2 / DeepSeek via OpenRouter gets you a great price with a fallback safety net of being able to self-host should the proprietary model Co's collude and try and squeeze more ROI out of us. Hopefully by then the hardware to run the OSS models will be a lot cheaper to run.


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