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A cache read now costs 5% of normal input on Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol. What that does to a real bill, the hit rate where caching stops paying, and what breaks a cache, from both vendors' own pages read Nov 3, 2026.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min
There is still a server. You just stop owning it. Here is how Workers and Lambda differ in how they run your code, start cold, and charge you, with the real list prices and the one month our own site hit the free plan's limit.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min
Hosting is renting the always-on computer your app runs on — mostly free until real users arrive, then metered where it counts, and AI calls are the surprise line. Try the calculator.
Aliteq Team · · 4 min
On Nov 3, 2026 a single H200 rented from $3.76 an hour on Vast.ai to $6.31 a GPU on CoreWeave. What each provider charges, the cheaper H200 NVL, and the models that really need 141GB instead of an 80GB H100.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
On Nov 3, 2026 a 40GB A100 rented from $0.40/hr on Vast.ai and an 80GB one from $0.63/hr (median $1.00), against $1.35 on Hyperstack and $1.79 on Runpod. Where the cheap A100s are, why 80GB costs about twice as much, and the jobs that need it.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
On Nov 3, 2026 a B200 rented for 1.4 to 2 times an H100 at the same managed cloud, and 3.6 times on Vast's marketplace. NVIDIA's own specs put it at about 2.3 times the compute and 2.25 times the memory. How to tell which side of that line your workload is on.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
A serverless H100 lists at $5.39 an hour against $1.99 to $3.99 for an H100 pod, but serverless bills only the seconds a worker runs. The full rate card side by side, the busy-hours break-even for every tier, and the settings that quietly add to the bill. Read on Runpod's own pages, Nov 3, 2026.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
On Nov 3, 2026 the same H100 rented for $1.79 an hour on Vast.ai and listed at $6.16 a GPU on CoreWeave. Where the cheap H100s are, which ones can be taken back mid-job, and the storage bill that keeps running after you stop.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
Pick the card by the VRAM your fine-tune needs, not by the biggest name. On Nov 3, 2026 a 24GB RTX 4090 rented for a $0.47/hr median on Vast.ai ($0.89 on Runpod), enough for QLoRA up to about 14B; a 70B QLoRA needs an 80GB A100 from about $0.95/hr. Here is the card for each job and the math for a run.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min
Divide the card's price by the hourly rental rate. On Nov 3, 2026 a $1,000 RTX 3090 paid for itself after about 2,000 hours against Runpod ($0.50 an hour) and about 6,200 hours against a typical Vast.ai rental ($0.16). Add electricity and the gap widens. Here's the math, by GPU and by hours a day.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min