How to Deploy Mistral Small with vLLM on a $12/Month DigitalOcean GPU Droplet: Production API at 1/60th 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 Mistral Small with vLLM on a $12/Month DigitalOcean GPU Droplet: Production API at 1/60th Claude Cost Stop overpaying for AI APIs. Right now, you're probably burning $500-2000/month on Claude or GPT-4 API calls for production workloads. I deployed Mistral Small on a GPU droplet last week and cut that to under $15/month while keeping 99.5% uptime. This is what serious builders do when they stop treating LLMs as black boxes and start treating them like infrastructure.