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by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago
> do the electricity math

Could you give an example with real figures?

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obviously depends on your location and GPU

for me it would be about $2 per day in electricity to generate 8 mil tok of Gemma4-26B at 4 bit quantization. this is excluding how much the GPU cost (no amortization)

ignoring the fact that I could get more free tokens per day for this model from Google/OpenRouter, it would cost $4 per day on OpenRouter if paid, but they would run it at full 16 bit precission

this would be the most "profitable" model for me

for Gemma4-31B I can generate only 1 mil tok per day, and so I pay more to get less quality than OpenRouter (ignoring that this model is also free on Google)