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Both Core Weave & Lambda Labs have fairly predatory pricing making it impossible to rent GPUs without a yearly contract. This doesn't make sense for training m
by maxchehab 2y ago
Both Core Weave & Lambda Labs have fairly predatory pricing making it impossible to rent GPUs without a yearly contract.
This doesn't make sense for training models, where a training run is on the scale of days & weeks.
I wished that the techcrunch article mentioned other companies, like sfcompute, which offer hourly compute instead of yearly contracts.
- thundergolfer 2y agoLambda Labs has on-demand GPUs. Just put in a credit card and you're able to launch. I launched an 1x H100 server just 10 minutes ago on Lambda Labs. The price is also $2.49/hr which does not seem predatory at all.
- matroid 2y agoI have never seen 1x H100 available on Lambda Labs. Don't know why though.
- williamstein 2y agoI've been checking about twice a week for the last 6 months, and they are very rare, but it does happen. I caught one on video 2 weeks ago! https://youtu.be/NkNx6tx3nu0?t=744 https://youtu.be/NkNx6tx3nu0?t=744
- latchkey 2y agoI don't think it is predatory, I think it just happened over time due to demand. It is a marketplace after all. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101377 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101377
- ec109685 2y agoThat would make the TechCrunch article highly misleading since AWS and the other clouds offer big savings for reserved instances.