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Which private AI models should the company keep?
Short answer
A review of private AI model usage establishes which services support real work, which can be merged and which can be retired. A low number of queries does not have to mean a service is unneeded, so the review combines app data with conversations with users and a check of the replacement before anything is retired.
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- 01Call30 minutes with an engineer, free
- 02PrototypeA working system on your process and data, free
- 03ImplementationTarget and fixed price in the contract; 50% at signing
- 04Acceptance50% once the agreed target is met
- model on your server or in the cloud in the EU
- quoted after the review
- same work in application with EU cloud model
- from €3,000
- task, data and equipment analysis
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Author: Syntalith · 3 min read
Statistics
Private models: statistics 2026
2.0 mo.
payback of a €3,000 local app at 400 queries a month: €2,327 of work today, €796 with checking and a GPU server. Scenario.
59%
According to Microsoft and LinkedIn (2024), 59% of leaders worry about quantifying the productivity gains of AI.
Source: Microsoft and LinkedIn, Work Trend Index 2024 (2024) ↗
50%
According to the European Commission (2026), half of EU SMEs and mid-caps name high investment costs as a barrier to AI.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer 578 (2026) ↗
52.5%
According to Eurostat (2025), 52.5% of EU companies that considered AI and did not use it named a lack of clarity about the legal consequences.
Source: Eurostat, Use of artificial intelligence in enterprises (2025) ↗
20.0%
According to Eurostat (2025), 20.0% of EU companies with at least 10 employees used AI.
Figures checked: 22 October 2026
- What work each service supports
- Who uses it and how often
- Which services overlap
- What replaces a service before it is retired
Few queries do not have to mean an unneeded service
Say one model helps a team prepare a monthly report, and another is a general chat used every day. The report shows much less traffic in the first tool. Its owner explains, though, that the app handles a specific stage of the work cycle and there is no agreed replacement yet.
The review should combine this information with the usage data. IT can then consider keeping the service, starting it only when needed, or moving the task to another approved environment. The decision needs an assessment of the task and of the cost of change, without treating popularity as value.
What your current app shows about private AI model usage
Open WebUI describes an admin view with message counts, token usage and activity over time, based on the saved history. Such data can help point to the tools to discuss with their owners. The scope of the report has to be read against what the system actually records.
If the app does not record part of the work, or deletes history under the company's rules, the report may cover only part of the use. Clarify this before comparing services. Work done through another app may also need a separate source of information. The review should show the tasks each service handles.
Existing reports and conversations with owners may be enough. A separate view makes sense if the information is spread across several environments and the summary has to be rebuilt regularly. There is no need to build another tool just to read the available data once.
Consolidation needs a check of the replacement
Two models may serve tasks with similar names, while employees rely on different sources or app features. Before merging services, look at a typical task in the proposed target. The user checks the result, access to documents and how work is kept.
If the replacement does not handle a needed element, the company can keep a separate scope or order the missing part. A saving in administration is not yet an assessment of the effect on the team. Moving to the cloud is likewise an option only when the requirements of the material and the process allow it.
When an app is retired, you need to settle what happens to conversations and documents. The business owner chooses the material to keep, and IT agrees access to the archive and the end of support. Users should know where to carry on working after the change.
A review in place of another pilot
Syntalith's proposed work can cover a list of private services, the available reports and the tasks the teams name. Together we compare overlapping features and pick the cases that need a replacement trial. An IT representative brings information about upkeep, and business owners explain why the rarer tasks matter.
After such a review you can agree a migration, reduced support or keeping the tool. Each proposal should name the work the company still has to do, without claiming savings before the change has been assessed.
Describe the private tools whose purposes have started to overlap. We will go through the available data and the scope of the review. We price a private model after a free call about the task, the data and the hardware. An app that uses the model starts from €3,000 net (pricing).
The scope of private LLMs also covers arrangements for upkeep. When several services are reviewed, the business owner, the users and the responsibility for updates have to be set apart for each one.
What a private AI service costs and when it pays back
- Today
- 400 queries × 10 min = 66.7 h × €34.90 = €2,327
- With the app, an employee checks the output in 25% of the time
- €582
- Hetzner GEX45 GPU server
- €214
- Saving
- €1,531 a month
Payback of €3,000
2.0 months
The volume, the time and the checking share are the scenario's assumptions, which we measure in the trial. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat. Price of the GEX45 with 24 GB of GPU memory from Hetzner's website on 22 October 2026, without the one-off setup fee of €209.
- Where the app takes documents from and where it saves results
- What stays in logs, backups and the history of questions
- Who has access to questions, answers and summaries
- Who updates the model, the app and the set of documents
Where to start
In the free process review we choose one task and 20 to 100 cases the team has already handled, and within 2 working days you get a written summary with a price. We roll out the local model as part of private LLMs, and the app around it as an AI app.
Worked example · Scenario
How we count the payback: a review of private models
We run the same count for your team in the free process review.
€4,188
a month for the work on 600 questions
EU cloud version payback: 0.8 mo.
Our assumptions are 12 minutes to find an answer in the documentation, and checking in 15% of the old time. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Model cost: Claude Sonnet 5.5, about 6,000 + 500 tokens per answer in the EU cloud version, at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026. We count the payback for an app with a model in the EU cloud (from €3,000 net). We price the model on your server after a call, and the cost of people's work stays the same.
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