On-Premises Infrastructure Reaches Breakeven Under 4 Months for High-Volume AI Inference
Cloud API / Edge (High Volume)
On-Premises Harvester HCI
While serverless edge AI requires zero upfront capital, per-token costs accumulate indefinitely. On-premises hardware requires heavy initial CapEx but achieves a breakeven point in under four months for high-throughput enterprise workloads, yielding up to an 18x cost advantage per million tokens over a five-year lifecycle.