Aeion Bridge for Local AI Inference
Cloud AI APIs charge per inference — DALL-E 3 at $0.04/image, ElevenLabs at $0.30/1K characters, OpenAI Whisper at $0.006/minute. For high-volume workloads (10K+ images/month, hours of transcription/day, podcast-scale TTS), these costs compound to $300-3000+/month. Aeion Bridge runs Stable Diffusion / Flux / Kokoro TTS / Whisper.cpp / Spleeter on your local GPU hardware, exposed to cloud Aeion OS via MCP — zero per-call API cost, full data-sovereignty (content never leaves your network), at the tradeoff of seconds-not-milliseconds latency (see Setup Walkthrough / FAQ for real numbers). Walkthroughs for product photography, podcast production, transcription, image editing pipelines.
The Cost Math
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Walkthrough — E-Commerce Product Photography
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Walkthrough — Podcast Production Pipeline
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Walkthrough — Customer Support Real-Time Transcription
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Setup Walkthrough
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FAQ
Per-workload size. Light: RTX 4060+. Medium: RTX 4070+. Heavy: RTX 4090 (24GB). Mac M-series also supported for some models (MPS backend).
ROCm support is limited. Best path is NVIDIA RTX. Apple Silicon is OK for moderate workloads.
Yes — Lambda, RunPod, Vast.ai. Aeion Bridge can run on a cloud GPU host. Per-hour cost vs amortized owned hardware tradeoff.
Local Bridge: 1-15 seconds typical. Cloud API: similar or sometimes faster (data center scale). Local wins on cost + sovereignty, not latency.
One Bridge process serves all tenant users. Per-request queue. Per-user attribution.
Yes. Per-tenant multiple Bridge instances. Per-request load-balanced.
Owned RTX 4090 amortized over 3 years: ~$60/month effective. Lambda A100 rental: ~$1000/month.
Per-model versioning. Aeion publishes new model recommendations quarterly. Per-tenant updates voluntary.
Yes. Per-tenant LoRA / DreamBooth fine-tunes. Per-model loading transparent.
Bridge idle: <100MB RAM, <1% CPU. GPU only active during inference.
Yes. Per-machine multiple GPUs. Per-request GPU assignment.
Per-tenant scoped credentials. Per-call MCP tool authorization. Bridge cannot access cloud data outside tenant scope.