How to Deploy Llama 3.2 13B with vLLM on a $12/Month DigitalOcean GPU Droplet: Production-Ready Inference at 1/85th Claude 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 13B with vLLM on a $12/Month DigitalOcean GPU Droplet: Production-Ready Inference at 1/85th Claude Cost Stop overpaying for AI APIs. I'm not talking about switching from GPT-4 to GPT-3.5. I'm talking about running your own 13-billion-parameter model for less than a coffee subscription - and getting 50+ tokens per second while you're at it. Here's the math that changed my approach to LLM deployment: Claude 3.5 Sonnet costs $3 per million input tokens.