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title: "How-To - Dedicated Inference"
description: "Step-by-step guides for common Dedicated Inference tasks."
url: https://community.exoscale.com/product/concrete-ai/dedicated-inference/how-to/
product: "Dedicated Inference"
section: product
last_updated: 2026-09-14
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# How-To - Dedicated Inference

Find practical guides for deploying models, scaling inference endpoints, troubleshooting issues and optimizing performance or costs.

- [Use CLI Commands](https://community.exoscale.com/product/concrete-ai/dedicated-inference/how-to/cli-commands/index.md) - Manage Dedicated Inference models and deployments with the Exoscale CLI.
- [Import Gated Models](https://community.exoscale.com/product/concrete-ai/dedicated-inference/how-to/deploy-gated-model/index.md) - Import gated or private Hugging Face models with a read token.
- [Trusted model providers](https://community.exoscale.com/product/concrete-ai/dedicated-inference/how-to/trusted-models/index.md) - Understand trusted model providers, remote code execution, and the process for requesting additional providers.
- [Monitor and Troubleshoot](https://community.exoscale.com/product/concrete-ai/dedicated-inference/how-to/monitor-troubleshoot/index.md) - Check deployment state, inspect logs, and diagnose common Dedicated Inference issues.
- [Optimize Deployment Costs](https://community.exoscale.com/product/concrete-ai/dedicated-inference/how-to/optimize-costs/index.md) - Control Dedicated Inference costs with right-sized GPUs, replica scaling, scale-to-zero, and cleanup.
- [Optimize Performance](https://community.exoscale.com/product/concrete-ai/dedicated-inference/how-to/optimize-performance/index.md) - Improve inference latency and throughput with context tuning, quantization, KV-cache optimization, and speculative decoding.
- [Run OCR](https://community.exoscale.com/product/concrete-ai/dedicated-inference/how-to/run-ocr/index.md) - Deploy LightOnOCR on Dedicated Inference and extract text from images with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.