# Revolut moves about 2,000 engineers to self-hosted GLM for coding

> Original title: Europe’s largest private company just made open models its default for coding.

- Source: Together AI
- Published: 2026-11-03T17:14:17.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/l4cqlgyb8cc1mfosz3qzklg2d
- Original: https://x.com/togethercompute/status/2117666686757372106

## Summary

Revolut has made self-hosted GLM its default for coding for about 2,000 engineers, according to David Abitbol, who leads AI operations there. He says the setup runs on 56 Nvidia B200s at a blended 30 cents per million tokens, roughly one-tenth of what Revolut paid Anthropic and OpenAI, and that engineering lead time improved 70%.

## Why it matters

The post links a cost and lead-time result to how often engineers used AI, showing a practical trade-off between self-hosted open models and frontier APIs.

## Post

Europe’s largest private company just made open models its default for coding.
@Revolut: ~2,000 engineers, 1/10th the cost, 70% faster lead time.

Proud to be part of the infrastructure powering open models in production 🚀.

## Quoted post @guilleflorvs

> BREAKING: Revolut moved ~2,000 engineers onto self-hosted GLM for coding and pushed Claude Code and Codex to the exception list.
> 
> Per David Abitbol, who leads AI ops there: 56 Nvidia B200s, a blended 30 cents per million tokens, roughly a tenth of what they paid Anthropic and OpenAI. Engineering lead time improved 70%.
> 
> Here's the part that matters: the gains showed up when tokens stopped being rationed. Engineers quit saving AI for the hard tickets and pointed it at everything.
> 
> Frontier models become the exception, open weights become the default. That's a pricing problem for every lab heading to IPO.
> 
> h/t @OliverMolander
> 
> Would you move your team off frontier APIs if the bill dropped 90%?

https://x.com/guilleflorvs/status/2117379073785696395