At off peak pricing, which is substantially lower than the standard API rate (50% off). So I assume it looks even better financially overall.

Quick numbers:

At $35/hour in net cash generation per card, a $30,000 GPU would pay for itself entirely in about 850 hours (roughly 35 days)

With an assumed ~ $3 operation cost per card and hour

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cloudbonsai an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Your estimation feels too high. It implies >1000% ROI on a GPU card (= $300k gross annual profit on a $30k card).

As a reference point, Z.ai is operating at 26% gross margin as of 1H26. So assuming ~90% gross margin is likely a bit off.

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Gigachad an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

How is the math so good for data centres but so bad for home gear? A Mac mini capable of running these models ends up at around 10 years of subscription costs.

	▲	rayboy1995 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		All of it is really about scale, same reason as a single person you can't sell french fries as cheap as McDonalds.