How to Deploy Qwen2.5 72B with vLLM + AWQ Quantization on a $24/Month DigitalOcean GPU Droplet: Multilingual Reasoning at 1/110th Claude Opus Cost

This guide details how to deploy Qwen2.5 72B with vLLM and AWQ quantization on a DigitalOcean GPU Droplet for just $24/month. It demonstrates significant cost reduction compared to commercial AI APIs like Claude Opus, offering enterprise-grade multilingual reasoning at a fraction of the price.