A100s at $0.50/hour vs. $4 on traditional cloud
Akash Network Live with Greg Osuri: Akash's progress in 2023, open community development, and more (Akash Network)
“The provider incentives will be used to incentivize high-end GPUs like A100s, H100s. We’re anticipating from our estimations that an A100 will cost you somewhere around 50 cents — compare that to a traditional cloud offering which is about four dollars an hour… If you ask any AI dev and offer them an A100 for 50 cents, they will kidnap you.” — 00:20:49
Context: Pre-GPU-launch pricing forecast; incentives designed to attract high-end data-center GPUs rather than miners’ 4090s.