Model Training Cost Calculator
Estimate GPU-hour cost and wall-clock time for a training run.
Results update automatically as you type.
Result
$2,500.00 training run
1,000 GPU-hours ≈ 125h on 8 GPUs
- GPU-hours
- 1,000
- Price / GPU-hour
- $2.50
- Total cost
- $2,500.00
- Wall-clock time
- 125 h
Estimate the cost of a training or large fine-tuning run from GPU-hours and price per GPU-hour, plus the wall-clock time across your GPUs.
How this is calculated
This calculator uses the infrastructure formulas described in our methodology. All figures are estimates for planning; verify current pricing with each provider before relying on them.
Worked example (defaults)
With the default inputs above, here is the result:
Result
$2,500.00 training run
1,000 GPU-hours ≈ 125h on 8 GPUs
- GPU-hours
- 1,000
- Price / GPU-hour
- $2.50
- Total cost
- $2,500.00
- Wall-clock time
- 125 h
Frequently asked questions
How do I estimate GPU-hours?+
GPU-hours ≈ (training tokens × 6 × parameters) / (GPU FLOPS × utilization), or use figures from similar published runs.
Does more GPUs cost more?+
Total GPU-hours (and cost) stay similar, but wall-clock time drops as you parallelize across more GPUs.