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Firm rents four Nvidia H200s to test DeepSeek's '80x cheaper' claim
Original: Firm rents four Nvidia H200s to test '80x cheaper' DeepSeek claim https:// fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.toms hardware.com/t
A firm rented four Nvidia H200 GPUs, reportedly paying $13,200 a month, to independently test DeepSeek's claim that its AI model costs 80 times less to run than rivals like Anthropic's Claude. According to Tom's Hardware, the GPU rental bill alone doubled the comparable Claude API cost, raising questions about whether the widely cited savings hold up in real-world self-hosted deployments.
Why now: DeepSeek's dramatic cost claims are being put to an independent test, with results suggesting self-hosting may be far pricier than advertised.
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