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The Paralon capybara holding a balance scale between a graphics card with a power meter and a glowing cloud
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Own GPU vs Pay-per-Token: Where an RTX 4090 Breaks Even Against an LLM API

A measured cost model for running a 27B model on a card you own versus paying per token: what a 4090 actually produces at one and at sixteen concurrent requests, what it draws at the wall loaded and idle, and the utilization at which owning becomes cheaper. Sixteen requests deep, the card breaks even at about 20% utilization in Germany and 15% in the US. One request at a time, it never does. A calculator script takes your own numbers.

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The Paralon capybara feeding a glowing green thread from a graphics card into a quantum-looking lattice of hexagons
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How to Mine Quantus (QTC) on a Rented GPU: Pool Setup, Real RTX 4090 Hashrate, and What It Costs

Quantus, a post-quantum proof-of-work chain, launched its mainnet on 9 September 2026 and is mineable on ordinary NVIDIA GPUs from day one. We rented an RTX 4090 on Paralon, pointed the pool's CUDA miner at quanpool, and measured 1.17 GH/s. Here is the complete setup, the pool parameters, the fees, the network numbers, and the math you should do before renting a second card.

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