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Fine-tuning with LoRA or QLoRA is often the cheapest serious GPU workload to get right. These methods cut the memory requirement so far that a 70B model can be adapted on a single node rather than a cluster, which can change the cost by an order of magnitude compared with full fine-tuning of the same model. The decision that matters most is which method, because that sets your memory floor. We have single-node and multi-node capacity from vetted partners for either.

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Which GPU do I need to fine-tune an LLM?

Method decides hardware. QLoRA on a quantised base model fits far smaller footprints than a full fine-tune of the same model, so an H100 at 80 GB or H200 at 141 GB often does what people assume needs a cluster. Full fine-tuning of a large model still needs multi-node with fast interconnect. All of those configurations are available through the network.

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How much does it cost to fine-tune a model?

Less than most buyers expect. Market-wide the median on-demand H100 rate was $3.33 per GPU-hour across 40 providers as of 31 August 2026, and a LoRA run on a mid-size model is usually measured in GPU-hours rather than GPU-weeks. The larger cost is normally the experimentation cycle rather than the final run.

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What is the difference between LoRA, QLoRA and full fine-tuning?

LoRA trains small adapter matrices while the base weights stay frozen, which cuts trainable parameters dramatically. QLoRA adds quantisation of the frozen base, cutting memory further at some cost to fidelity. Full fine-tuning updates every weight and needs memory for optimiser states, which is typically several times the model size. Most production adaptation uses LoRA or QLoRA.

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Which fine-tuning frameworks do you support?

Axolotl and Unsloth cover most workflows, with HuggingFace PEFT underneath. Unsloth is notably efficient on single-GPU runs. For preference tuning, DPO has largely displaced full RLHF for cost reasons. All of these run on any generation we place, so the framework rarely dictates the hardware.

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What commitment term suits fine-tuning?

Runs are usually measured in hours or days rather than weeks, so a short commitment term generally fits fine-tuning better than a long one, and you avoid paying for capacity standing idle between experiments. Terms vary by operator.

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Does placement matter for fine-tuning?

It matters more than for pretraining. Fine-tuning corpora are usually proprietary or regulated, and the resulting adapter encodes them, so the run inherits the corpus obligations. Tell us the jurisdiction you need and we return rates for capacity there.

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