{
  "id": 141981,
  "title": "TPU running cost?",
  "url": "/competitions/flower-classification-with-tpus/discussion/141981",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-04-08T11:39:08.388230400Z",
  "votes": 6,
  "comment_count": 6,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I am new to TPU. I read in a notebook that running a notebook costs some money. What are cost involved, If any?  </p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "801343",
      "postDate": "04/08/2020 11:39:08",
      "content": "<p>I am new to TPU. I read in a notebook that running a notebook costs some money. What are cost involved, If any?  </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I am new to TPU. I read in a notebook that running a notebook costs some money. What are cost involved, If any?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "801367",
      "postDate": "04/08/2020 12:26:38",
      "content": "<p>I don't think there are costs for using TPUs. We have 30hrs/Week of TPU usage</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I don't think there are costs for using TPUs. We have 30hrs/Week of TPU usage",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "801701",
      "postDate": "04/08/2020 18:03:40",
      "content": "<p>If you are looking for professional usage, I have a couple of benchmarks with training prices (GCP prices):\nimage recognition: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/flower-classification-with-tpus/discussion/137983#784972\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/flower-classification-with-tpus/discussion/137983#784972</a>\nNLP with m-BERT: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-multilingual-toxic-comment-classification/discussion/140022#793524\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-multilingual-toxic-comment-classification/discussion/140022#793524</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "If you are looking for professional usage, I have a couple of benchmarks with training prices (GCP prices):\nimage recognition: https://www.kaggle.com/c/flower-classification-with-tpus/discussion/137983#784972\nNLP with m-BERT: https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-multilingual-toxic-comment-classification/discussion/140022#793524",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "802994",
      "postDate": "04/10/2020 03:26:59",
      "content": "<p>What happens when you use more than 30hrs/week? Say, 31 hrs/week.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "What happens when you use more than 30hrs/week? Say, 31 hrs/week.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "805150",
      "postDate": "04/12/2020 12:12:51",
      "content": "<p>I don't think you can use more than 30 hrs/week. I myself haven't reached limit but I think your notebook will disconnect from the TPU runtime.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I don't think you can use more than 30 hrs/week. I myself haven't reached limit but I think your notebook will disconnect from the TPU runtime.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "805790",
      "postDate": "04/13/2020 05:14:36",
      "content": "<p>I've see some notebooks that say that it costs about $8 to run, but I thought that was an attempt by the kernel author to be funny. Who knows, maybe it does cost about that much. Thanks so much to the Kaggle team for letting us experiment with using them!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I've see some notebooks that say that it costs about $8 to run, but I thought that was an attempt by the kernel author to be funny. Who knows, maybe it does cost about that much. Thanks so much to the Kaggle team for letting us experiment with using them!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "818901",
      "postDate": "04/24/2020 07:39:07",
      "content": "<p>Simple, you can't use no more.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F1310697%2F05d57fab8816fd1acbb1118b3c4b186d%2FScreenshot_2020-04-24%20Flower%20Classification%20with%20TPUs%20Kaggle.png?generation=1587712482900465&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Simple, you can't use no more.\n\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F1310697%2F05d57fab8816fd1acbb1118b3c4b186d%2FScreenshot_2020-04-24%20Flower%20Classification%20with%20TPUs%20Kaggle.png?generation=1587712482900465&amp;alt=media)",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 801367,
      "author_name": "parmarsuraj99",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/08/2020 12:26:38",
      "content": "<p>I don't think there are costs for using TPUs. We have 30hrs/Week of TPU usage</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 802994,
          "author_name": "infiniteloops95",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/10/2020 03:26:59",
          "content": "<p>What happens when you use more than 30hrs/week? Say, 31 hrs/week.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 805150,
          "author_name": "rohans1497",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/12/2020 12:12:51",
          "content": "<p>I don't think you can use more than 30 hrs/week. I myself haven't reached limit but I think your notebook will disconnect from the TPU runtime.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 818901,
          "author_name": "kurianbenoy",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/24/2020 07:39:07",
          "content": "<p>Simple, you can't use no more.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F1310697%2F05d57fab8816fd1acbb1118b3c4b186d%2FScreenshot_2020-04-24%20Flower%20Classification%20with%20TPUs%20Kaggle.png?generation=1587712482900465&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"></p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 801701,
      "author_name": "mgorner",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/08/2020 18:03:40",
      "content": "<p>If you are looking for professional usage, I have a couple of benchmarks with training prices (GCP prices):\nimage recognition: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/flower-classification-with-tpus/discussion/137983#784972\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/flower-classification-with-tpus/discussion/137983#784972</a>\nNLP with m-BERT: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-multilingual-toxic-comment-classification/discussion/140022#793524\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-multilingual-toxic-comment-classification/discussion/140022#793524</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 805790,
      "author_name": "michaele919",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/13/2020 05:14:36",
      "content": "<p>I've see some notebooks that say that it costs about $8 to run, but I thought that was an attempt by the kernel author to be funny. Who knows, maybe it does cost about that much. Thanks so much to the Kaggle team for letting us experiment with using them!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
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    "801343": "I am new to TPU. I read in a notebook that running a notebook costs some money. What are cost involved, If any?",
    "801367": "I don't think there are costs for using TPUs. We have 30hrs/Week of TPU usage",
    "801701": "If you are looking for professional usage, I have a couple of benchmarks with training prices (GCP prices):\nimage recognition: https://www.kaggle.com/c/flower-classification-with-tpus/discussion/137983#784972\nNLP with m-BERT: https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-multilingual-toxic-comment-classification/discussion/140022#793524",
    "802994": "What happens when you use more than 30hrs/week? Say, 31 hrs/week.",
    "805150": "I don't think you can use more than 30 hrs/week. I myself haven't reached limit but I think your notebook will disconnect from the TPU runtime.",
    "805790": "I've see some notebooks that say that it costs about $8 to run, but I thought that was an attempt by the kernel author to be funny. Who knows, maybe it does cost about that much. Thanks so much to the Kaggle team for letting us experiment with using them!",
    "818901": "Simple, you can't use no more.\n\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F1310697%2F05d57fab8816fd1acbb1118b3c4b186d%2FScreenshot_2020-04-24%20Flower%20Classification%20with%20TPUs%20Kaggle.png?generation=1587712482900465&amp;alt=media)"
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