Ship a product before you can afford hardware
Rent the card for the hours the model runs, and keep the money that would have bought it. Nothing to depreciate and nothing to explain to a board.
A GPU is a capital decision. A product that has not launched yet cannot justify one, and does not have to.
Why it is hard
The purchase comes before the revenue
Buying a card means committing money to a guess about how much inference you will need, made before anybody has used the thing.
Guessing wrong costs either way
Buy too small and the model does not fit. Buy too big and most of the card is idle while the runway shortens.
It is money you cannot get back
Hardware is the one line item that does not scale down when a month goes badly.
What answers it
An expense instead of a purchase
Per-second metering means the cost follows the usage. A quiet week is a small bill rather than the same bill.
Change the card, not the plan
Seven models to move between. Finding out that a smaller card is enough costs an hour, and acting on it costs nothing.
A ceiling you set yourself
A spend limit refuses new rentals past a number you choose, while work already running finishes rather than being destroyed at a threshold.
How billing works
per second, to the microeuro · no minimum · no egress fee · idle costs nothing
Metering starts when the container does and stops when it stops. The rate is frozen the moment you match, so a provider re-pricing cannot change a running rental, and an aborted run costs what it used.
What you use from Kracht
Related jobs
- ComputeTrain a model without buying hardwareTake an H100 for the length of a training run and give it back. No reservation, no minimum, and no card sitting idle between experiments.Read the job
- ComputeFine-tune on a scheduleA job that runs nightly needs a GPU for the hour it runs, not for the day around it. Per-second metering makes the difference the whole business case.Read the job
- ComputeServe inference when traffic spikesAdd capacity for the hours you need it and stop paying when the spike passes. Nothing continues to bill after the container stops.Read the job