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16 September 2026
Self-Hosted TTS on GPU vs API: The Voice-Synthesis Cost Cliff
Moving text-to-speech off an API and onto a GPU replaces a linear per-character bill with a flat hourly rate, creating a clear cost crossover. This guide provides the exact break-even arithmetic to determine when self-hosting voice models becomes cheaper than paying a vendor.
8 September 2026
AI Dubbing Costs: GPU Pipelines vs Commercial APIs
If you are costing an AI dubbing feature, this guide breaks the chain into its four stages and prices each one built against bought. Compare a self-built GPU pipeline against commercial dubbing APIs on a normalised cost per minute of finished audio.
7 September 2026
Whisper Transcription: GPU Cost & Batch Throughput Sizing
Running batch speech-to-text on massive audio archives through managed APIs scales costs linearly with every audio hour you send. Moving Whisper pipelines to self-hosted European GPUs and optimizing with CTranslate2 converts that per-minute bill into a GPU-hour bill you can size, measure and control.
30 May 2026
Deploy Whisper Large v3 GPU API: VRAM, Performance & EU Hosting
Running Whisper Large v3 in production requires strict VRAM management and optimized inference engines. For European teams, it also demands provable data sovereignty.