Open Source LLMs Are Crushing Closed-Source Models on Cost — The Numbers Don't Lie The Pricing Trap Closed Models Can't Escape Closed-source providers still charge premium rates that scale directly with usage, turning every token into a recurring tax. GPT-4 Turbo lists at 0 per million input tokens and 0 per million output tokens. In contrast, self-hosted Llama 3 70B on a single H100 runs at...