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A fair use policy, which you seem to be referring to [1], is pretty standard fare for many 'invididual user' products to exclude heavy-use groups. However, the
by Confiks 7y ago
A fair use policy, which you seem to be referring to [1], is pretty standard fare for many 'invididual user' products to exclude heavy-use groups.
However, they could at least define expected and minimum capacity. They might omit it because the business in this – aside from capturing users in their ecosystem – is arbitraging wholesale GPU price against consumer monthly needs, along with scaling the free tier.
[1] "Why aren't resources guaranteed in Colab Pro?" on https://colab.research.google.com/signup https://colab.research.google.com/signup
- londons_explore 7y agoI would be happy with an explanation of "none of our service is guaranteed, but if we don't manage to give you your chosen GPU more than 80 percent of the time, you are free to cancel, and we will refund your final months subscription payment".
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoSince the subscription is monthly with no commitment, I think the viewpoint is probably something like "if it's not meeting your needs then unsubscribe." A refund of $10 is not going to be economically meaningful to folks who want to subscribe to this service. "Chosen GPU more than 80% of the time" sounds nice but it opens you up to adverse selection. They aren't looking for customers who want to pay ten bucks a month to rent 80% of a high performance GPU. That's not nearly enough money for that kind of commitment.
- dr_kiszonka 7y agoIt would be economically meaningful to ML students.
- dannyw 7y agoThe free version of Colab is pretty great for ML students.
- PeterisP 7y agoThey have a product with guarantees, but the market price for that is literally 100 times more than this one. If you want a certainty of getting the calculation unit of your choice and not getting kicked off of it, then that's not going to cost $10/month.