{"author":"mountainriver","children":[],"created_at":"2025-09-19T19:02:22.000Z","created_at_i":1758308542,"id":45305173,"options":[],"parent_id":null,"points":2,"story_id":45305173,"text":"Fireworks AI is one of the most overpriced model hosting companies in the ecosystem. I tried their fine-tuning service with a very small dataset of 10k records using SFT with gpt-oss-20b.<p>It ran for 8 mins, and I got a bill for $192 !!!<p>You can get A100s for $1.29&#x2F;hr on Lambda, for 8 minutes of time that\u2019s $0.17<p>This is maybe the biggest markup I\u2019ve ever seen in the industry. Anyone can just spin up a runpod or modal instance and do it for a small fraction of the cost.<p>Anyway, buyer beware, this is money I won\u2019t get back. Not to mention the service is overall just mediocre.","title":"Fireworks AI \u2013 Charging $192 for less than $0.20 of Training Cost","type":"story","url":null}