Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
The discount is real; the engineering is the price Every major cloud sells the same GPUs twice. Once at the on-demand rate, with an implicit promise that the machine stays yours until you give it back. And once at a large discount under a name like spot, preemptible, interruptible or low-priority, with the explicit condition that the provider can take it back whenever it wants the capacity for someone paying full price. The silicon is identical. The interconnect is identical. The only difference is who holds the option to end the lease. As of August 2026, the discount you will actually observe on GPU-class instances usually lands in a 40 to 70 per cent band against the equivalent on-demand rate, and providers advertise headline savings that reach higher on particular shapes. That is a…
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