That sounds kinda weird to me. I use fly.io exactly because the pricing works out for hobby use. I can enable my machine for a few hours, run a bunch of inference, and turn it off again. The whole auto start/stop thing makes it seamless too.
fly.io was the first provider I tried any gpu offerings at, I probably should give it another shot now that I've used a few others.
- "Datacenter" means it's comparable to Runpod's secure cloud pricing.
- A spot instance of an H200 under someone's living room media console wouldn't go for A100 rates.
$3.50 will also get you an H100 at a laundry list of providers people build real businesses on.
Certainly all better track records than fly.io, especially on a post where they explain it's not working out for them as an offering and then promise they'll keep it shambling along.