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NVIDIA AI Enterprise lists at $4,500 per GPU per year. For bare-metal inference, vLLM or SGLang on your own stack, or Red Hat AI for a support contract, replaces it; vGPU and production NIM are where you still need it.
October 29, 2026 · 14 min read
For air-gapped LLMs, run Apache-2.0 weights like gpt-oss-120b on vLLM, via Red Hat AI if you need a vendor. NVIDIA AI Enterprise's per-GPU fee is the loser, and an 8-GPU air-gapped node costs 30-40x the hosted API at 1B tokens a month, and even two GPUs cost about 9x.
September 28, 2026 · 14 min read