I’m looking at starting a service that involves hosting a lot of LLM models, which are often going to be 16GB+ (compressed). I did a bit of searching for cloud storage providers with cheap egress, and the cheapest I could find is $0.01 per GB, which would still be $0.16+ per download.
How do sites like Huggingface or CivitAI do it? Lots of VC funding?
R2 by cloudfare does not charge egress costs. It’s 0.015$/GB/month for storage. Read operations are 0.36$ per million.
I do have a hard time believing that they will remain this cheap though, but who knows.