Cloud GPU providers quote hourly prices. For always-on production serving, that math gets ugly fast. A dedicated GPU on our UK hosting has fixed monthly billing and typically runs 60-80% cheaper at 24/7 utilisation over a year.
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Cloud Hourly
Approximate 2026 cloud prices for an A10G or L4 class GPU (not 5090 equivalents – hyperscalers rarely offer those):
- On-demand: $1.00-$1.50/hour
- 1-year reserved: $0.60-$0.90/hour
- Spot (interruptible): $0.30-$0.60/hour
24/7 on-demand: ~$730-$1,100/month. Annual: ~$8,700-$13,200.
Dedicated
A UK dedicated GPU from GigaGPU at a comparable tier: roughly £300-£700/month depending on card. Annual: £3,600-£8,400.
That’s before factoring that a dedicated 5090 is a different class of card – roughly twice the performance of an A10G – so the effective per-token cost advantage widens further.
Hidden Cloud Costs
Cloud bills accumulate beyond compute:
- Data egress fees (~$0.09/GB above free tier)
- Storage for model weights (persistent storage is extra)
- VPC / network infrastructure charges
- Monitoring and logs (CloudWatch, Stackdriver)
- Spot preemption recovery overhead (engineer time)
Dedicated hosting bundles bandwidth, storage, and typically has no per-GB fees.
Annual TCO
| Line Item | Cloud (on-demand) | Dedicated |
|---|---|---|
| Compute | £10,000 | £6,000 |
| Egress | £1,500 | £0 |
| Storage | £500 | £0 |
| Ops overhead | £2,000 | £500 |
| Total | £14,000 | £6,500 |
Fixed Annual Cost Hosting
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