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the best cloud GPU for fine-tuning an LLM costs about a dollar — here's the one to rent and why

Fine-tuning sounds expensive until you realize you can rent the perfect GPU for it by the hour. For small models a 4090 does it for pennies; for bigger jobs an A100 is the workhorse. Here's the cheapest path.

Lena Fischer · Jul 28 · 9 min

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the cheapest way to run Llama 70B isn't buying two GPUs — it's renting one big one for a couple dollars

A dual-GPU rig to run Llama 70B costs $2,000+. But you can rent an A100 that holds it for around a dollar an hour. For anything but constant use, the cloud wins big.

Lena Fischer · Jul 28 · 9 min

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should you rent a cloud GPU or buy your own for AI? the break-even is simpler than you think

Everyone frames it as cloud vs local like it's a religion. It's just arithmetic: how many hours will you actually use it? Here's the number that decides it for you.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 28 · 9 min

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RunPod vs Vast.ai vs Lambda: which GPU cloud is actually cheapest for AI?

The three big names in cloud GPUs price and position themselves very differently. One's a marketplace race to the bottom, one's managed and easy, one's built for training. Here's which to use.

Lena Fischer · Jul 28 · 9 min

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the cheapest way to rent a GPU for AI in 2026 costs less than a coffee an hour — here's the live math

You don't need to buy a $2,000 graphics card to run big AI models. Renting one by the hour starts at cents, and knowing the real prices saves you a fortune. Here's what GPUs actually cost to rent right now.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 28 · 9 min

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The cheapest way to run Llama 70B isn't the one you're about to build

"Cheapest" flips completely on how often you run it and how many people hit it at once — and in Europe, the electricity bill alone can cost most of what renting does.

Lena Fischer · Jul 21 · 10 min