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You said that you do only LoRA finetuning and your pricing for Llama 3.1 8B is $2/1M tokens. To me this does seem high. I can do full finetuning (so not just a LoRA!) of Llama 3.1 8B for something like ~$0.2/M if I rent a 4090 on RunPod, and ~$0.1/M if I just get the cheapest 4090 I can find on the net.
Once a model is fine-tuned, you can run inference on Llama 3.2 3B for as low as $0.12 per million tokens. This includes access to logging, evaluation, and continuous dataset improvement through collaboration, all without needing to set up GPUs or manage the surrounding infrastructure yourself.
Our primary goal is to provide the best dataset for your specific use case. If you decide to deploy elsewhere to reduce costs, you always have the option to download the model weights.
So your $2/M tokens for LoRA finetuning tells me that you either have a very (per dollar) inefficient finetuning pipeline (e.g. renting expensive GPUs from AWS) and need such a high price to make any money, or that you're charging ~20x~30x more than it costs you. If it's the latter - fair enough, some people will pay a premium for all of the extra features! If it's the former - you might want to consider optimizing your pipeline to bring those costs down. (: