How to Deploy Llama 3.2 Vision with Ollama + Gradio on a $6/Month DigitalOcean Droplet: Multimodal Image Analysis at 1/150th GPT-4V Cost

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⚡ Deploy this in under 10 minutes Get $200 free: ($5/month server - this is what I used) How to Deploy Llama 3.2 Vision with Ollama + Gradio on a $6/Month DigitalOcean Droplet: Multimodal Image Analysis at 1/150th GPT-4V Cost Stop overpaying for AI vision APIs. GPT-4V costs $0.01 per image. Claude's vision mode isn't cheaper. But here's what I discovered: you can run production-grade image analysis for $6 a month using open-source Llama 3.2 Vision, optimized for CPU inference. I tested this setup analyzing 500 images. Cost: $0.06 total. Same task on GPT-4V: $5.