Self hosting

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Week 45 · 2-8 Nov

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Create Your Own Work Stack: Deploying Self-hosted AI and Tooling in a Tech Startup
Before: seven Claude Team/Claude Code seats (about $175 a month), seven Codex subscriptions (about $140) and about $10 of credits, about $325 a month for over 25.93 billion recorded tokens.
$325monthly commercial AI spend (Claude and Codex seats plus credits) before local models
Grayhat Developers·Practitioner post·5 Nov 2026·arxiv.org
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British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted
Gemini was deployed in early 2025 and Claude Code in early 2026, with strict budget limits after engineers spent $1,000 to $10,000 a month "with not so much ROI".
roughly 90 percentcut in Revolut's AI coding inference costs in under a year after making self-hosted models the default
The Register·Report·3 Nov 2026·theregister.com
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How Revolut Cut AI Coding Costs 90% With Self-Hosted Open Models - David Abitbol
Gemini (January 2025) brought 10% better lead time and 20% better coding time.
56 B200GPUs serving GLM-5.3 to about 2,000 engineers
Revolut (AI Engineer)·Talk·29 Oct 2026·youtube.com