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Cost Comparison

# How does DiscreteStack compare to your current AI spend ?

Compare the total cost of ownership against hyperscaler AI APIs. Adjust the sliders to match your organization. Open on Desktop for best experience.

Developer Count: 200 

50 500 1,000 

Already have [GPU hardware](/blog/on-premise-llm-inference-hardware)?

Includes hardware leasing costs

Off-Hours Utilization: 20% 

0% 25% 50% 

Off-hours bonus tokens/year:

~676,288M

at zero marginal cost

Annual Savings with DiscreteStack

€341,000

55% cost advantage

Hyperscaler Annual Cost

€621,000

What You Pay

API usage (pay-per-call) €621,000 

Infrastructure as-a-service 

Unit Economics

Per developer / day €14.38 

Price per 1M tokens €1.30 

DiscreteStack Annual Cost

€280,000

What You Pay

License (4 nodes) €200,000 

Hardware lease €80,000 

Unit Economics

Per developer / day €6.48 

Effective per 1M tokens €0.24 

Off-Hours Compute Dividend

Business hours

Off-hours

~676,288M bonus tokens/year outside working hours — RAG indexing, batch inference, CI/CD test generation, agentic workflows.

Calculation Assumptions

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