The Open-Model Cost Chart Everyone's Sharing Is API Prices. Here's What Self-Hosting Actually Gets You (Measured)
The intelligence-vs-cost chart making the rounds shows open models winning the value quadrant. True, but the x-axis is API token price. The cheap open winners are 100B-to-1T MoEs you can't run on a desktop GPU. Here's what you can actually self-host on an 11GB and a 24GB card, measured, and where the real ceiling is.