NVIDIA Blackwell Delivers Up to 10x Lower AI Inference Costs with Open-Source Models

What happened

NVIDIA announced that inference providers Baseten, DeepInfra, Fireworks AI, and Together AI achieved up to 10x reductions in cost per token on Blackwell GPUs compared to Hopper, using open-source models, NVFP4 low-precision format, TensorRT-LLM library, and Dynamo framework. Examples include 10x savings for Sully.ai in healthcare, 4x for Latitude in gaming, 25-50% for Sentient Labs in agentic chat, and 6x for Decagon in customer service.

Drastically lower inference costs enable agent builders to scale autonomous systems for continuous operation, long-context reasoning, multi-step workflows, and high-volume interactions without budget constraints, shifting focus from cost to advanced capabilities like real-time agentic AI.

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Why builders should care

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Evidence

• Primary source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/inference-open-source-models-blackwell-reduce-cost-per-token/
• Detected: 2026-02-12T00:00:00.000Z
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Sources

• blogs.nvidia.com/blog/inference-open-source-models-blackwell-reduce-cost-per-token