Community / marketplace hosts
Also known as: community cloud, peer-to-peer
Platforms like Vast.ai where independent hosts rent out their machines. Often the cheapest option, with more variation in reliability and security.
Related terms
Pricing and renting
- Reserved / committedA lower hourly rate in exchange for a commitment, usually 1 to 3 years or a fixed contract.
- GPU-hourOne GPU for one hour. An 8-GPU node for 2 hours is 16 GPU-hours. A GPU running around the clock is about 730 GPU-hours a month.
- EgressData transferred out of a cloud. Some providers charge for it; PetaPrice prices exclude it, as well as storage and IP addresses, unless the provider bundles them.