Article · businessDeep readWhat a Model Actually Costs to Run in Production: A Back-of-Envelope Framework for Teams
Training makes headlines; inference quietly compounds every month until the cloud bill arrives. A reusable back-of-envelope framework — tokens, caching, batch tiers, latency, and engineering time — to estimate what a deployed model really costs before you commit.
BitByteCore Business Desk · Aug 9, 2026 · 8 min read
