Four questions first
Can data leave the company? How quickly must you launch? What concurrency and latency are required? Who will operate the service?
Seven dimensions
Private deployment offers clearer data boundaries, customisation and cost control. Cloud APIs launch faster with lower initial effort. Hybrid routing can use each path for the tasks it handles best. Results depend on model, load, interfaces and compliance requirements.
Workloads that favour private delivery
Sensitive contracts, research, internal policies, knowledge-base Q&A and fixed permission boundaries are good candidates for private or private-cloud deployment.
Workloads that may stay on cloud APIs
Public information, low-sensitivity experiments and rapid prototypes may be simpler on a cloud API.
Decide with real workload tests
Use redacted questions to test answers, retrieval, concurrency, latency and cost. Do not replace validation with a single parameter or marketing number.
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