Revolut moves 2,000 engineers off Claude Code

Revolut recently reported that moving its 2,000 engineers to a self-hosted Chinese open-weight model on custom GPUs reduced its AI coding bill to one-tenth of its previous cost with Anthropic and OpenAI. An analysis of the numbers indicates that the break-even point for self-hosting versus using Claude is closer to 200 engineers than 20, meaning smaller teams may not see the same financial benefits. Open article →