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The self-hosted price falls with volume and the API price does not, so the two cross at a token rate. Where that crossing sits, the fixed cost floor that makes low volume expensive, and the three reasons that override the arithmetic in both directions.

A GPU cloud sells whole nodes and fabric slices to tenants who expect them in minutes and expect them to work. The node state machine, the reconciler that keeps thousands converging, the isolation lines on shared fabric, the health loop that pulls a bad node first, and billing that survives a control-plane outage.