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The advantages of self-hosting model weights center on data sovereignty and cost structure: when inference requests involve sensitive data or compliance requirements do not permit data to leave the country, self-hosting is the only viable option; in high-frequency invocation scenarios, the marginal cost of a self-built inference cluster may be lower than a token-billed API, but at low load the fixed cost of self-hosting is instead higher.
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