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techMEDIUM2026-04-23 20:55 UTC

I Replaced $800/mo in API Costs with a Local Llama 4 Setup for E-Commerce

My team runs an e-commerce operation that pushes around 80,000 product descriptions through LLMs every month. We were spending $800+ on GPT-4o API calls. Last month we moved the bulk generation pipeline to Llama 4 Maverick running locally via Ollama. Monthly cost dropped to about $40 in electricity.

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