How to Deploy Qwen2.5 72B with vLLM + FastAPI on a $20/Month DigitalOcean GPU Droplet: Production Inference at 1/90th 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 Qwen2.5 72B with vLLM + FastAPI on a $20/Month DigitalOcean GPU Droplet: Production Inference at 1/90th Claude Cost Stop overpaying for Claude API calls. I'm running a production LLM endpoint that competes with Claude 3.5 Sonnet on reasoning tasks for $20/month. No vendor lock-in, no rate limits, no surprise bills. Here's exactly how. Last month, I deployed Qwen2.5 72B on a DigitalOcean GPU Droplet and cut my inference costs by 98.