The real cost to run pythia 6.9b

EleutherAI · 7B parameters · 2K context · commercial OK

pythia 6.9b — 7B params (EleutherAI). Auto-indexed from the Hugging Face Hub (116,493 downloads). Parameter count is exact; download size and quantizations are estimates.

What it costs to run pythia 6.9b — $0 markup

• On your own machine — $0. Runs free locally if you have about 7 GB of VRAM at Q4_K_M (point Spanvero at LM Studio, Ollama, or llama.cpp).
• On your own rented GPU — from $0.26/hr. NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB at the direct Vast.ai price (≈ $0.08 a session), $0 markup.
• Via your own API key — $0.16/1M tokens (blended input + output). No GPU to manage (rough estimate for this size).

Key facts

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