I just subscribed to Colab Pro+ hours before this announcement (－‸ლ)
Google Colab Pro is switching to compute credits
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#12Pro tip: if it costs someone something, it’s not unlimited (this is true even if you’re paying a flat fee).
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#13Have been experimenting lately with GPUs off vast.ai. Has worked well for experiments with Stable Diffusion and is cheap! Any other suggestions for where to rent cheap GPUs? - i've heard about Hetzner ( https://www.hetzner.com/sb?search=gpu ), but they are 1080s.
Paperspace, Vultr
Re: Google Colab Pro is switching to compute credits
#14Have been experimenting lately with GPUs off vast.ai. Has worked well for experiments with Stable Diffusion and is cheap! Any other suggestions for where to rent cheap GPUs? - i've heard about Hetzner ( https://www.hetzner.com/sb?search=gpu ), but they are 1080s.
I tried use Paperspace Gradient "Growth" plan for Teams. The product was so buggy it was unusable. Their support and engineers were wonderful to talk to, but they admitted that there are a lot of features that just don't work and they don't have the bandwidth to fix them. It seems like an early product and I wouldn't recommend it if you need something dependable, at least not now. I would love to work with them in the future if the stability improves.
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#15You can really tell, in the comments sections of changes like these, who is speaking from the perspective of having a professional/business vs. a personal use-case.
Individuals tend to be upset; while professionals are happy that individual free-riders will no longer be sucking up undue amounts of compute power, and so QoS on the system will improve for them.
Re: Google Colab Pro is switching to compute credits
#16Pro tip: if it costs someone something, it’s not unlimited (this is true even if you’re paying a flat fee).
Within capitalism, this is everything that exists. The phrase should effectively be banned in all marketing and service contexts across all industries.
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#18Have been experimenting lately with GPUs off vast.ai. Has worked well for experiments with Stable Diffusion and is cheap! Any other suggestions for where to rent cheap GPUs? - i've heard about Hetzner ( https://www.hetzner.com/sb?search=gpu ), but they are 1080s.
Lambda has $1.10/hr A100 instances. That's less than half the price of GCP on demand. https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud
Re: Google Colab Pro is switching to compute credits
#19For those affected and wanting to run your stable diffusion notebook more, you can always spin up a notebook on Lambda cloud with A100s for only $1.10/hr. PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Jupyter notebooks are pre-installed: