Top 10 open-model inference providers compared on price, speed and uptime, plus when owning a GPU pays off
Ten inference providers charge $0.34 to $1.12 per million tokens for the reference open model used here (Qwen3.8-27B), as of 20 Oct 2026, and Cerebras is about ten times faster than a typical host. An RTX 5090 pays back against them in 8 to 44 months only at heavy use.
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