Cost vs. Daily Volume Sensitivity
■ Proprietary API
■ Open-Weight Cluster
● Break-Even
Monthly TCO Structure Breakdown
■ API Markup
■ GPU Hardware
■ Ops & Fine-Tune
Strategic Moat Analysis: At 650.0M tokens/day, proprietary API spend reaches $82,500/mo ($2.75K/day). Deploying a self-hosted open-weight cluster consumes $27,780/mo all-in ($17.28K GPU + $10.50K Ops/Eval), yielding $54,720/mo in margin arbitrage (66.33% erosion). Switching pays off once daily volume exceeds 218.87M tokens.
Blended API Cost: $4.23 / 1M tok
Self-Hosted Unit Cost: $1.42 / 1M tok
Effective Cluster Cap: 155.5M tok/day/node
Infra Utilization: 418.0% (multi-node scaled)