Should you self-host an LLM? What Revolut's 10x cheaper switch means for a normal business
Revolut made a self-hosted open model its default for coding at about a tenth of the cost of Claude Code. Why that move was predictable, why more companies will follow, and how a small or mid-sized business can capture the saving: real prices for frontier APIs, hosted open models and self-hosting, the hardware, where open models still fail, and a decision rule with thresholds.