https://www.ilscipio.com/en/categories/infrastructure/ Recent content in Infrastructure on Ilscipio - Enterprise Commerce Experts Hugo en-US Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.ilscipio.com/en/blog/real-cost-ai-inference/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.ilscipio.com/en/blog/real-cost-ai-inference/ <p>I run a service that routes AI inference to the cheapest available GPU. So I spend an unreasonable amount of time staring at provider pricing dashboards. And the thing I keep learning is that the sticker price on an AI model tells you almost nothing about what inference actually costs you.</p> <p>Take a 70B parameter model. Provider A charges $0.60 per million input tokens. Provider B charges $0.90. Provider A is cheaper, right?</p>