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Work log for Training on a rented GPU: four and a half times cheaper
Run by run: GPU against CPU
Training cost about $5.420 training runs, 5 machines, about 9.1 machine-hours
The runs behind the post, one row each, from the run records in kakuto-ml. The post tells the story and breaks the cost down; this is the full list, including the short test and evaluation jobs.
Every run
From the run records in kakuto-ml: each run's machines, their billed hours and cost (EC2 runs are estimates from the run logs).
| Run | Outcome | Machines | Hours | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
gpu5090-muscular21 October | Test | 2 | 2.8 | $1.43 |
cpubench-2026102121 October | Test | 1 | 0.4 | $0.59 |
cpubench-simple-2026102121 October | Test | 1 | 0.4 | $0.79 |
simple21 October | Test | – | 0 | $0 |
vast-survey21 October | Test | 1 | 5.5 | $2.61 |
| 0 training runs | 5 | 9.1 | $5.42 |
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