Prices as of Oct 29, 2026

Which AI model can you run on your own servers?

When data must not leave your infrastructure, you need a model whose weights you can download and run yourself.

What matters for this task

  • Open weights under a license that allows commercial use
  • Hardware: large models need several GPUs
  • The API price here is a reference point; self-hosting cost depends on your servers

Typical workload

1,000 requests/day · 3K in · 500 out

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Shortlist

3 models meet the requirements, ranked by monthly cost for this workload.

ModelClassContextImagesInput $/1MOutput $/1MMonthly
Llama 4 Maverick Lowest cost Mid 524K ? $0.19 $0.65 $27
Qwen3.8-27B Mid 262K ✓ $0.40 $3.00 $81
DeepSeek V4 Pro Reasoning 1.05M — $1.74 $3.48 $209

Licenses: DeepSeek V4 Pro under MIT, Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0, Llama 4 Maverick under the Llama Community License, which has its own conditions. Read the license before commercial use. API prices for Llama and Qwen come from third-party hosts.

Quality tests

Our side-by-side tests for this task are in progress. Until they are published, run 10 to 20 of your own real examples on two or three candidates before you choose.

Independent leaderboards: LMArena · Artificial Analysis

How this list is built: models in the classes suited to the task that meet its hard requirements (image input, context size, open weights), ranked by price. A lower price does not mean better quality.