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What it costs to run 1M image search in production

r/programming focuses on production and search, with context pulled from source reporting instead of recycled feed copy.

Tuesday, 10 March 2026·Source: r/programming·US·corporate

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What happened: GPU inference, vector storage, image hosting, backend servers. I broke down every piece of the infrastructure and added up the monthly bill.

What to watch next: movement around production, search.

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Verbatim descriptions from source feeds — unedited, as received

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I priced out every piece of infrastructure for running CLIP-based image search on 1M images in production GPU inference is 80% of the bill. A g6.xlarge running OpenCLIP ViT-H/14 costs $588/month and handles 50-100 img/s. CPU inference gets you 0.2 img/s which is not viable Vector storage is cheap.

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