Re:Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
by segmondy on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @09:53PM
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H100 are going for about $3/hr, 384243 ~ $28k
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Re:Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
by jrk on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @11:38PM
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This is indeed a reasonable cost estimate for competitive short-term H100 rentals (source: much SemiAnalysis coverage, and my own exploration of the market), but there is a critical error (besides the formatting glitch with `*`):
It was 24 days (576 hours) not 24 hours. $663,552 @ $3/hr.
Re:Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
by mromanuk on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @08:54AM
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According to Runpod pricing page, you can run H100 for $2.39, it can go as lower as $528,629.76
WARNING: This is highly speculative and napkin math
H200 (141 GB HBM3 - $3.99/h - 1.4x perf) 216 x 24 x 17 = 88128h = 351.895,104 (17 days and 216 cards)
B200 (192 GB HBM3e - $5.99/h - 2.8x perf) 158 x 24 x 9 = 34128h = $204.426,72
Probably wrong math, should be more efficient and cheaper. Doubt that they have 100/200 cards available for that long.
Source: I've only trained using RTX4090 and stuff like that with 8 cards.
Not affiliated in any way with Runpod.
Re:Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
by dr_kretyn on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @10:58PM
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The price just keeps on dropping with each comment. Anyone going to estimate it for less?
What's the source for $3/h?
Re:Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
by pests on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @12:10AM
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They miscalculated only 24 hours, not 24 days, so their number is off by a factor of 24.
Re:Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
by jazzyjackson on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @10:11PM
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Take this brother, \*, it may serve you well
Re:Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:23AM
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You can buy for $2.2/GPU/hr for on-demand and likely around $2 for this big order.
Re:Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
by social_quotient on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:40AM
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Runpod is worth a look for these on demand workloads https://www.runpod.io/pricing
I use a lot for ffmpeg workloads.
Found this a few days ago which might be neat for finding cheaper https://www.primeintellect.ai/
No affiliation with either
Re:Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
by dconden on Thursday July 17, 2025 @06:42PM
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Adding one more that's worth a look https://www.shadeform.ai
Re:Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
by lhl on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @09:31AM
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You can go much lower: https://gpulist.ai/