Machine Learning

Platform
Build vs. Buy:
by the numbers
Why you shouldn’t write your own MLOps software

 TIME & EFFORT

Build Buy

6 mo - 1 year 30 min
+Lifecycle management Onboarding + automated
lifecycle

 PEOPLE

Build Buy

3+ Engineers 0 Humans
2+ DevOps Full MLOps automation
& Lifecycle Management

 COST

Build Buy

     

    

$541,571 / yr $50k / yr
$114,121 (3) + $99,604 (2) Starting annual subscription
Cost of 3 full time
ML Engineers + 2 DevOps

YEARS TO PROFIT

Build Buy

∞
16.4 years 1 month

 OPPORTUNITY COST

Build Buy

65% 0%
of data scientists timespent of time spent on DevOps
on DevOps 100% time spent on algorithms

Focus more on building high impact models

and less on technical complexity

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