LLM pricing can feel opaque until you translate it into a few simple numbers: input tokens, output tokens, and price per million. Every request you send—system prompt, chat history, RAG context, tool-call JSON—counts as input; everything the model writes back counts as output. Once you know those two counts, the cost of a completion is […]

Large language models live and die by numbers—literally trillions of them. How finely we store those numbers (their precision) determines how much memory a model needs, how fast it runs, and sometimes how good its answers are. This article walks from the basics to the deep end: we’ll start with how computers even store a […]

The open-source LLM landscape is becoming increasingly diverse, with models optimized for reasoning, throughput, cost-efficiency, and real-world agentic applications. Two models that stand out in this new generation are NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Nano and OpenAI’s GPT-OSS-20B, both of which offer strong performance while remaining openly available and deployable across cloud and edge systems. Although both […]

The open-source LLM space has exploded with models competing across size, efficiency, and reasoning capability. But while frontier models dominate headlines with enormous parameter counts, a different category has quietly become essential for real-world deployment: small yet high-performance models optimized for edge devices, private on-prem systems, and cost-sensitive applications. NVIDIA’s Nemotron family brings together open […]

The open-source LLM ecosystem has evolved rapidly, and two models stand out as leaders in capability, efficiency, and practical usability: GLM-4.6, Zhipu AI’s high-capacity reasoning model with a 200k-token context window, and DeepSeek-V3.2, a sparsely activated Mixture-of-Experts architecture engineered for exceptional performance per dollar. Both models are powerful. Both are versatile. Both are widely adopted […]

Fast, predictable responses turn a clever demo into a dependable product. If you’re building on an LLM API provider like DeepInfra, three performance ideas will carry you surprisingly far: time-to-first-token (TTFT), throughput, and an explicit end-to-end (E2E) goal that blends speed, reliability, and cost into something users actually feel. This beginner-friendly guide explains each KPI […]