Prompt

Do I need spot GPUs for experiments?

Artificial Intelligence / AI Infrastructure2 observationsLast seen Oct 18, 2026

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Oct 18, 2026OpenAI APIWeb search: off

Not necessarily.

You need spot GPUs only if your experiments are flexible enough to tolerate interruptions and you want to reduce cost. Spot instances are a good fit when:

  • training jobs can be checkpointed and resumed
  • you can re-run interrupted experiments
  • you’re doing many short or exploratory runs
  • cost matters more than guaranteed uptime

You probably should avoid spot GPUs if:

  • the experiment is long and hard to resume cleanly
  • you need stable, uninterrupted runs
  • you have tight deadlines
  • your setup doesn’t support checkpointing well
  • you’re doing debugging where interruptions would be annoying

A practical rule:

  • Use spot for scale, sweeps, and batch training
  • Use on-demand for critical runs, demos, and debugging

If you want, I can help you decide based on your specific experiment type, framework, and budget.

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