[Y_Y]

It might be more expensive to get a GPU instance but at a guess I'd say it's more cost-effective considering that the CPU computation will be less efficient and take much longer. I bet someone's done this out with real numbers, I just haven't seen it.

[franga2000]

This only matters if you're scaling to meet demand and demand is higher than your spare resources, which often isn't the case for hobby projects. The 10€/mo VPS I've had for over 6 years now still has a few cores and GBs or RAM spare, so running a small model on the CPU for a personal project that only me and a few friends occasionally use wouldn't cost me a cent more.

[immibis]

FYI, the going rate for "smallest possible VPS" is now more like 3€/mo.

[bg24]

It depends on your use case, correct? If you do not have a heavy inferencing requirement, then CPU is good enough.