I run a micro saas app that would benefit a lot from using llama v2 to add some question & answering capabilities for customers’ end users. We’ve already done some investigation with the 7B llama v2 base model and its responses are good enough to support the use case for us, however, given that its a micro business right now and we are not VC funded need to figure out the costs.

We process about 4 million messages per month of which we’d need to run 1M of them through the model and generate a response from it. Latency < 30 seconds would be required. So around ~23 messages/minute. # of tokens used would be ~4096 for each invocation.

Commercial models like Palm 2 or GPT X would be too expensive for us, wondering if there is a path to have a setup that can do this cost-efficiently. We have a bunch of GCP AI credits to fine-tune and experiment but they run out in less than a year so we need to think about the long-term sustainability. We can probably spare 500-1000 a month for the inference API with the hope that our customers will pay more $$ for this service.

Any guidance or benchmarks using various optimized models you can share would be very helpful.