> Assuming your 1 GPU machine depreciates to $0 in 3 years (very conservative), the chart below shows that if you use it for up to 1 year, it’ll be 10x cheaper,

> Assuming your 1 GPU machine depreciates to $0 in 3 years (very conservative), the chart below shows that if you use it for up to 1 year, it’ll be 10x cheaper, including costs for electricity You can invert that to 3 years of use at 33% utilization which would come out cheaper (or is my maths broken?). Still doesn't sound like it'd be a good match for your usage though. That 3 years is extremely conservative though, in reality it would probably be much longer and there are some potential upgrade paths to factor in as well. Not to mention the potential to use it for other purposes.