The best prices and options for… The best prices and options for consumer GPUs and easy to start and scale up. Some machines don't work for various reasons though so you end up having to test and eval them yourself. Support is active and helpful during US office hours, not as much off hours. Still the best place for cheap GPU compute.

Livechat is lacking, servers are good but a lot of waiting time The computation power is there, and is good, your server wont crash and it will work well, however there's a bit of shortage since a lot of times you cant use your own server because the gpu is being used by another user, and while you wait for it to be avayable you are still getting billed for the storage. At start, I had a terrible experience where some misleading text would lead to some unexpected payments, but finally the support team realised the mistake and refunded the full amount, so I'm OK with that. Is vast.ai worth it? If you don't mind waiting for your turn while paying storage and also can get thru the misleading text, servers arent bad...

Vast.ai offer is strong Despite some raw edges, Vast.ai offer is strong. I managed to escape this crappy Kaggle-to-Colab-and-back tinkering with frequent disconnects and got very powerful and manageable workflow with remote jupyter kernel from vast.ai machine inside local VS Code.

You get what you pay for... The service is cheap but the on-demand instance randomly disconnected me after a few days. Luckily I could reconnect before anyone else jumped on, otherwise it would be a total loss - all data gone. As expected customer service is nonexistent - "we'll be with you in just a minute" = infinite hold

its great if you know what your doing… its great if you know what your doing if its your first time doing things like this get help from a experienced person