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Speaking strictly of infrastructure costs, stripping away any other value of our marketplace and platform, ignoring an on-premise deployment of our platform that uses your own AWS instances, and given a sustained workload that saturates system resources for the lifetime of your instance(s): yes.

For workloads where you aren't making full use of system resources at all times, then the economy of scale provided by our compute cluster often results in compute-per-second being more cost effective even before considering the costs of managing your own infrastructure. It fits into the "serverless" trend, FWIW.

Each algorithm in our marketplace has a cost calculator that breaks down the price using a per-API-call estimate. If you have a specific workload in mind, feel free to reach out and we'd be happy to further discuss the pricing.