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2026-08-26
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Cloud & Ops
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10 min read
The Economics of GPU Cloud — Rent, Buy, or Commit
The same GPU carries four prices at once. Put on-demand, committed, spot, and owned hardware on a single equation: the break-even utilization, the true cost of spot once interruptions are priced in, the commitment burn rate, and the line items that never appear on the rate card.