Self-Hosted LLM Equivalents: The Open Model That Replaces Each Paid API | AI Bacon

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If you host your own LLMs, the question isn't "which model is best" — it's which open model gets you close enough to the paid one you'd otherwise pay an API for. This maps every open-weight model to its nearest paid equivalent by measured intelligence, shows the VRAM to run it, and the API price you stop paying. Rebuilt automatically every day with the model data.

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