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Beyond Intelligence: Benchmarking Speed and Cost of Self-Hosted vs. Frontier LLMs

GLM-5.1 on Intility Inference responds in under a tenth of a second and is 6× cheaper per request. GPT-5.5 streams slightly faster and is the smarter model. We measured speed and cost so you know where the trade-offs actually land.

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GLM-5.1 on Intility Inference responds in under a tenth of a second and is 6× cheaper per request. GPT-5.5 streams slightly faster and is the smarter model. We measured speed and cost so you know where the trade-offs actually land.