Runpod•10mo ago

Spot price seems to be broken with SkyPilot

Hello, out of curiosity we started 2xA40 spot instance and I think the price is broken there. Does anyone have any idea what that price comes from? A40 is around 0.35$/h and here for two on spot I see almost 2$ :D. Btw. we are using skypilot :). I also checked on billing page and it appears runpod is actually billing us 1.96$/h

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for spot instances you are able to bid the price
not used SkyPilot so do not know much how it works

for spot instances you are able to bid the price
not used SkyPilot so do not know much how it works

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FAQ | RunPod Documentation

RunPod offers two cloud computing services: Secure Cloud and Community Cloud. Secure Cloud provides high-reliability, while Community Cloud offers peer-to-peer GPU computing. On-Demand Pods run continuously, while Spot Pods use spare compute capacity.

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Paweł Kulig•10mo ago

Quoting from chat:

for spot instances you are able to bid the price
not used SkyPilot so do not know much how it works

for spot instances you are able to bid the price
not used SkyPilot so do not know much how it works

https://docs.runpod.io/references/faq#on-demand-vs-spot-pod

FAQ | RunPod Documentation

Unknown User•10mo ago

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Paweł KuligOP•10mo ago

It appears skypilot has some csv file with set prices, we were able to change that to get better values

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Spot price seems to be broken with SkyPilot

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