[maxchehab]

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.

[latchkey]

I 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

[thundergolfer]

Lambda 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]

I have never seen 1x H100 available on Lambda Labs. Don't know why though.

[williamstein]

I'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

[ec109685]

That would make the TechCrunch article highly misleading since AWS and the other clouds offer big savings for reserved instances.