--- title: Self-Hosting Your First LLM | daily.dev description: A practical guide to self-hosting LLMs for agent workloads on a single GPU machine. Covers which benchmarks matter for agentic tasks (BFCL, τ-bench, SWE-bench,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/self-hosting-your-first-llm-13jpheaxf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Self-Hosting Your First LLM | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide to self-hosting LLMs for agent workloads on a single GPU machine. Covers which benchmarks matter for agentic tasks (BFCL, τ-bench, SWE-bench,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/self-hosting-your-first-llm-13jpheaxf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/13JpheaXF.png og:image:alt: Self-Hosting Your First LLM og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Self-Hosting Your First LLM **[Towards Data Science](https://daily.dev/sources/tds)** · 21 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical guide to self-hosting LLMs for agent workloads on a single GPU machine. Covers which benchmarks matter for agentic tasks (BFCL, τ-bench, SWE-bench, IFEval), quantization formats (BF16, GPTQ, AWQ, GGUF/K-quants) and their performance tradeoffs, GPU selection across AWS/GCP/Azure with pricing, KV cache sizing, and recommended models (Qwen3.5-27B, GLM-4.7 Flash, GPT-OSS-20B). Deployment patterns include Ollama for evaluation and vLLM for production with PagedAttention. Also covers zero-switch-cost migration from OpenAI and Anthropic APIs using vLLM's OpenAI-compatible endpoint and LiteLLM proxy, plus cost analysis showing self-hosting breaks even at roughly 40–100M tokens/month. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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