A user testing GPU rental providers reported Nebius had slow VM startup times of 3-7 minutes for which they were billed, and the slowest data transfer speeds of the four providers tested at 104 MB/s.

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      "[post] The VMs on Nebius and Hyperstack took 3-7 minutes before anything ran. Nebius charged for those minutes, Hyperstack did not charge for the creating phase.",
      "[post] Pulling 67 GB: 450 MB/s on a Vast host, 370 on Hyperstack, 210 on RunPod, 104 on Nebius.",
      "[post] On Nebius the first video clip took 11.5 minutes, because the weights are read back from a network disk at roughly 100 MB/s."
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    "post_text": "I run a small service that measures what a recurring GPU job costs on rented cards, so read me as an interested party. Over three weeks we paid for 22 runs on RunPod, Vast.ai, Nebius and Hyperstack, about $37 in total. Here is what cost us time or money that no price list mentions.\n\nStartup is billed, and it varies a lot. RunPod containers were live in 5-10 seconds. The VMs on Nebius and Hyperstack took 3-7 minutes before anything ran. Nebius charged for those minutes, Hyperstack did not charge for the creating phase.\n\nWhere the weights come from mattered more than I expected. Pulling 67 GB: 450 MB/s on a Vast host, 370 on Hyperstack, 210 on RunPod, 104 on Nebius. On Nebius the first video clip took 11.5 minutes, because the weights are read back from a network disk at roughly 100 MB/s.\n\nVast containers restarted in the middle of two of our jobs, no visible cause. One job went through three restarts and lost 50 of its 166 minutes. On RunPod Community, 2 of 2 pods got evicted within 10 minutes on another job, and the minimum spot bid there was equal to the on-demand price, so we took the interruption risk without any discount.\n\nStock: RunPod had no RTX 5090 with a CUDA 13 driver for 45 minutes, then it appeared in windows of 15 seconds to 2 minutes. Most community 5090 pods came with 46-54 GB of RAM and the job needed 64. We only caught one by polling the price API every 15-30...",
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  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY"

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  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":"nebius.com","limit":20}'