Issue 14 · 1 May 2026

Runpod is the H100 deal of 2026.

Or, why we cancelled our Lambda Reserved contract on Tuesday. Six weeks of benchmarks, three tiers, one honest verdict.

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comparison 8 min read

LLM model load times: how slow cloud block storage costs you money

We benchmarked LLM model load times on Runpod, Vultr, and Lambda Labs to see how block storage performance impacts your cloud GPU costs. See who wins.

  • gpu
  • llm
  • storage
comparison 5 min read

Modal vs Replicate vs Runpod: cheapest Llama 3 vLLM inference

Compare Modal, Replicate, and Runpod for Llama 3 inference with vLLM. See our measured cost-per-token, latency, and cold start times to find the cheapest option for your LLM workloads.

  • gpu
  • comparison
  • llama3
comparison 5 min read

RX 7900 XTX cloud pricing: a budget AMD option for AI and gaming

Explore AMD RX 7900 XTX cloud pricing and performance on Runpod and Vast.ai. Is this 24GB GPU the best budget choice for your AI/ML models or gaming server?

  • gpu
  • comparison
  • amd
comparison 5 min read

LLM training spot instances: Runpod, Vast.ai, Vultr compared for cost

Cut LLM training costs with spot instances. We compare Runpod, Vast.ai, and Vultr's A100 spot pricing, preemption rates, and strategies for resilient training.

  • gpu
  • comparison
  • llm
comparison 5 min read

A6000 Ada vs RTX 4090 for Stable Diffusion: is ECC worth the cost?

Comparing NVIDIA A6000 Ada vs RTX 4090 for Stable Diffusion finetuning. We break down VRAM, performance, and whether ECC memory justifies the cost for your AI projects.

  • gpu
  • comparison
  • a6000ada
comparison 8 min read

OVH GPUs vs Vultr: Short LLM Training Showdown

We pushed OVH and Vultr's on-demand GPU instances through iterative LLM fine-tunes to find which platform earns your hourly rate for quick experiments.

  • gpu
  • comparison
  • ovh
comparison 5 min read

A6000 Ada vs RTX 4090: Is ECC VRAM Worth It for Stable Diffusion?

We fine-tuned SDXL on both cards for a month, tracking errors, performance, and the actual cost difference beyond the hourly rate.

  • gpu
  • comparison
  • stable-diffusion
comparison 12 min read

NVLink H100s in the Cloud: Runpod vs Lambda vs CoreWeave

We put multi-H100 NVLink setups to the test across three major providers to see where distributed training actually scales, and where it just costs more.

  • gpu
  • h100
  • nvlink
comparison 9 min read

Hetzner GPU: Cloud vs. Dedicated for AI/ML

We pitted Hetzner's flexible Cloud GPUs against their raw dedicated servers, tracing where the real cost-performance lives for training and inference.

  • hetzner
  • gpu
  • comparison