Deploying Open-Source LLMs: A Practical Runbook

By C.W. Jameson · Published 28 August 2025 · Last reviewed 28 September 2025

Running open-source models sounds like cost savings. It is until you account for operations, GPU rental, and engineering time.

How to deploy Llama 3, Mistral, and Qwen models on your own infrastructure: hardware, quantisation, serving, and monitoring.