The H100 Rental Trap: Why $2.13 per GPU-Hour Is Not the Price You Pay
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An eight-hour H100 fine-tune looks like a $21.52 line item at $2.69 per GPU-hour. Then you discover the cheapest listing is a two-GPU bundle, the dataset sits in storage for a week, the job checkpoints twice, and the instance is interrupted at hour six. The bill is not $21.52, and the headline rate…
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- 2026-10-18 14:35 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
The H100 Rental Trap: Why $2.13 per GPU-Hour Is Not the Price You Pay