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After spending 5 minutes on the site, I could not figure out what an offering comparable to Colab Pro would cost me (i.e. single instance of a notebook hooked u
by m0zg 7y ago
After spending 5 minutes on the site, I could not figure out what an offering comparable to Colab Pro would cost me (i.e. single instance of a notebook hooked up to P100), and bailed. In contrast, Google puts pricing front and center, which makes me feel better about their value prop in spite of the fine print around limits and preemptibility.
- dragonsh 7y agoI have been a user of colab and recommended to many friends. As mentioned in the other thread the session time of colab notebook is too low, so increasing it for pro is good, but still if one has a large data for testing and training, dependency on google drive or products becomes one another bottleneck, but not that bad. My biggest concern with google product is, it might be shut down any time when any small and medium company begins to depend on it. This is the legacy of google in which anything which cannot generate revenues like it's advertising business it's shut down. So although my team use from time to time google colab, we keep an alternative always open. Hopefully with this 9.99/month charge it might become viable business but will not be as significant as the google's primary business of advertising, so there will always be sword at the neck of this product.
- m0zg 7y agoThe issue is not as acute in this case. These are just Jupyter notebooks, you'll be able to run them on your own hardware with minimal, if any, modifications, unless you choose to use TPUs.
- dragonsh 7y agoWe use both GPU and TPU, but use our own installed Jupyter to keep a copy as backup. Many of our developers like colab, just the reason we keep backup because we have been bitten by google shutting down services more than once. In one case we need to do a re-write of the complete app.
- fibrennan 7y agoThanks for the feedback. Instance pricing is currently listed here (https://gradient.paperspace.com/instances https://gradient.paperspace.com/instances) but we're working to make it simpler.
- m0zg 7y agoThanks for not being defensive. I do believe there's not enough competition in this space, so I wish you guys the best of luck. Let's look at the page you linked. On the top of the page it says "free GPU" and for some reason lists three GPU options of varying capacity, all three "free". But slightly below it's very much "non-free GPU" territory. Which is it? Is it free, or are you going to hit me with a bill later? And if it's free, what's the catch? The "free" stuff on the top of the page invites me to create an instance. Hmm, ok, let's see maybe I'll see the actual pricing there? Nope, it wants me to create an account, which I'm not going to do just to see how much something costs.
- snuxoll 7y ago6-hour time limit on free instances, there’s a banner at the top of the page linking to an announcement with this detail. Might be wise to make this more visible on the pricing page.
- sireat 7y agoA small nitpick: the blurry background when hovering on Create really felt off. I felt like my vision had just suddenly worsened and felt an urge to click away to a different card.
- arnaudsm 7y agoReally interesting product, but please disable the notification sound of your chatbot!
- fibrennan 7y agoWe agree. Notification sound has now been disabled.