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NVMe-oF: crucial for multi-node LLM training performance
Understand why NVMe-oF is essential for high-performance multi-node LLM training. We break down how this storage technology eliminates bottlenecks and boosts efficiency for distributed AI workloads.
Nvidia L40 48GB vs A100 40GB: better value for LLM inference?
Compare Nvidia L40 48GB vs A100 40GB for LLM inference. We break down pricing, performance, and which GPU offers better value for your specific AI workloads.
Intel Gaudi 3 cloud: is it ready to challenge H200 pricing?
Explore Intel Gaudi 3 cloud pricing and initial availability, comparing its performance claims and cost-effectiveness directly against Nvidia H200 for AI workloads.
Hetzner Dedicated RTX 4070 Ti vs. Cloud RTX 4070 Super for Llama 3
Comparing Hetzner's dedicated RTX 4070 Ti vs. cloud RTX 4070 Super for Llama 3 inference. Find out which offers better cost per token and flexibility.
Cloud NVLink H200 pricing: Runpod, Lambda, CoreWeave for LLM training
Compare NVLink H200 pricing and configurations from Runpod, Lambda Labs, and CoreWeave for multi-GPU LLM training. Find the best provider for your next project.
RX 7900 XT 20GB vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB for Llama 3 Fine-Tuning
Comparing RX 7900 XT 20GB vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB for Llama 3 fine-tuning on a budget. See how VRAM and price impact your choice.
Dual A100 40GB vs H100 80GB: where to train LLMs?
Compare dual A100 40GB vs. a single H100 80GB for LLM training. We break down the cost, VRAM, and performance trade-offs to help you choose the best GPU setup.
Paperspace, Colab Pro, SageMaker: cloud GPU notebook comparison
Comparing Paperspace Gradient, Colab Pro, and AWS SageMaker for cloud GPU ML notebooks. Find the best platform for your machine learning workflows based on price, performance, and ease of use.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Intel Gaudi 2: AWS vs. CoreWeave for LLM Pre-training. Price vs. Pain.
We put Intel's Gaudi 2 through a month of LLM pre-training and inference on two clouds to see if the cost savings are worth the ecosystem friction.
Runpod vs Vultr vs Lambda: Training I/O When the GPU Isn't the Bottleneck
We put three cloud GPU providers' NVMe storage to the test to see where your data pipeline actually spends its time and money.
RTX 4070 Super: Pricing Out Llama 3 Fine-Tuning
We put Runpod, Vast.ai, and Vultr's 4070 Super instances through a Llama 3 8B fine-tuning gauntlet to find the real cost.
Modal vs Replicate for Llama 3 Inference: A Cost and Latency Showdown
We pitted two serverless GPU platforms against each other for Llama 3 8B inference, tracking cold starts, throughput, and the real cost per token.
RTX 3070 Ti vs. Nvidia A4000: When Cheap VRAM Isn't Enough
We threw two budget GPUs at LoRA fine-tuning and found that 8GB of VRAM is a trap, even if the hourly rate looks sweet.
H100 40GB vs 80GB: When Half the VRAM Means Double the Headache
We threw Llama 3 70B at Nvidia's H100 SKUs and found that 'half the VRAM for half the price' is rarely the full story for LLM training.
RTX 4080 Super Cloud: Runpod vs Vast.ai vs Vultr for LLM Fine-Tuning
We threw Llama 3 8B at three providers' RTX 4080 Super instances for a month to see where mid-range LLM fine-tuning dollars really go.
TPU v4 vs H100: Cheaper LLM Fine-Tuning Isn't Just $/hr
We threw Llama 3 70B at Google's TPUs and Nvidia's H100s for a month, and the real cost came down to more than just the hourly rate.
GPU Instance Storage: The Hidden Cost You Keep Forgetting
We dug into NVMe pricing and performance across Runpod, Vultr, Lambda, and Vast.ai, because the GPU isn't the only thing on your bill.
RTX 6000 Ada in the Cloud: The Hunt for Nvidia's Pro Card
We scoured Runpod, Vultr, and Lambda Labs for Nvidia's workstation powerhouse and found availability is still a significant hurdle.
RTX 3090 Cloud Pricing: Runpod, Vast.ai, Vultr Compared
We pitted three providers against each other for budget 3090 rentals, tracking costs, stability, and real-world performance for ML workloads.
Runpod Bare-Metal vs Serverless: Llama 3 8B Cost and Latency
We put Llama 3 8B through its paces on Runpod's bare-metal pods and their Serverless platform, measuring real costs, cold starts, and throughput.
A100 Cloud Pricing: Runpod, Vultr, Lambda, Vast.ai Battle for Your DL Dollars
We put four A100 providers through our standard LLM inference benchmark and tracked every dollar, queue, and cold-start in the weeks leading up to May 2026.
AMD MI300X vs H100: Cloud LLM Inference, Price-Per-Token
We pitted AMD's new challenger against Nvidia's incumbent for Llama 3 70B inference in the wild.
H200 Cloud Pricing: The Hunt for Nvidia's Newest GPU
We scoured Runpod, Lambda Labs, and Vultr for Nvidia's H200, comparing listed prices, actual availability, and the hidden costs that follow the hype.
Nvidia L40S: Does Vultr, Runpod, or Lambda Labs justify the cost?
We rented L40S instances from three providers for a week to see where your inference dollars go farthest.
RTX 4090 Cloud Rentals: SDXL Performance vs. Price
We put Runpod, Vast.ai, and Vultr's RTX 4090 instances through their paces with Stable Diffusion XL workloads.
Egress Fees Still Trap You in 2026: A Four-Provider Audit
We dug into AWS, Azure, GCP, and Cloudflare R2 to see if the data gravity problem has actually improved.
Runpod Serverless Cold Starts: A Thousand Invocations, Three Weeks Later
We measured cold start latency for a common PyTorch model across 1,000 invocations on Runpod Serverless.
Runpod review: bare-metal H100s without the enterprise tax
Six weeks on Runpod across Community Cloud, Secure Cloud, and Serverless. The benchmarks, the bills, and where it falls short of AWS and Lambda.
Hetzner AX52 vs OVH Rise-3: which dedicated box wins on $/perf?
Two of the cheapest mid-tier dedicated servers in Europe, head-to-head over a 30-day rental.
Vast.ai for hobbyist ML: when the marketplace beats Runpod
A field guide to renting GPUs from random people on the internet — and why it's sometimes the right call.
Lambda Labs review: pretty UI, predictable bill, painful queue
Lambda is the boring-good option for ML teams that hate surprises. Here's what we'd warn you about.
The actual cost of egress on AWS, Hetzner, OVH and Runpod
Egress is the hidden tax of the cloud. We modelled four real workloads against four providers.
Hetzner Cloud CCX13 review: when shared cores are enough
Hetzner's smallest dedicated-CPU plan, on a one-month real workload. Spoiler: it's good.
Cold start times: Runpod Serverless vs Modal vs Replicate
Three serverless GPU platforms, 1,000 cold-start invocations each, the same Llama-3 8B container.
Setting up a Palworld dedicated server on Hetzner CX22 for £4/mo
Step-by-step: spin up a Hetzner Cloud box, install steamcmd, run Palworld in tmux, and survive.
Why we moved off DigitalOcean Droplets after 6 years
Six years of habit, ended by a series of small annoyances and one big one.
OVH Eco vs Hetzner Server Auction: where the real bargains live
Two markets for second-hand dedicated servers, both badly designed, both worth knowing.
Vultr Cloud GPU review: A100s on tap, but read the fine print
Vultr's GPU offering is finally GA. We rented an A100 for two weeks and ran the suite.
Linode dedicated CPU benchmark: Akamai era, six months on
We ran the same workload on Linode every quarter for two years. Here's what changed under Akamai.
How to actually benchmark a server: our standard playbook
The exact suite we run on every provider review. Steal it, run it on your own boxes, send us yours.
Paperspace Gradient review: Jupyter-first GPU rentals in 2026
DigitalOcean's GPU subsidiary, three years after acquisition. Still a good notebook tool, still expensive.
Tenstorrent's first Wormhole rentals: who's selling them?
Wormhole-based instances are starting to appear. We tracked down which providers actually have them.
Self-hosting Llama 3 70B: cheapest providers per million tokens
Eight providers, the same prompt distribution, ranked by cost per million output tokens.
Runpod Serverless deep-dive: cold starts, queueing, billing edges
We pushed Runpod Serverless to its limits over a 30-day production deployment. The good and the gotchas.
Are bare-metal H200s actually shipping yet? we asked nine providers
H200 SKUs are listed on a lot of websites. Far fewer providers actually have inventory.
Game server hosting in 2026: PufferPanel + Hetzner is hard to beat
The DIY stack for hosting Minecraft, Palworld, Valheim and friends without paying a managed-host markup.