#AI Cost Analysis — Kunal Ganglani

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Llama 3 70B Local: Cost & Quality

Claude Haiku 4.5 wins for zero-ops, high-volume API workloads; Llama 3 70B wins for privacy-first, cost-at-scale self-hosted deployments. Here's the full breakdown.

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