Discover how to accurately project fine-tuning costs for LLMs in Seattle's manufacturing sector and optimize your budget today.
Formula
const baseCostPerGB = inputs.modelChoice === 'GPT-3.5 Turbo' ? 0.5 : inputs.modelChoice === 'LLaMA 2 7B' ? 0.3 : 0.4; const trainingTimePerHourGB = 0.2; const estimatedTrainingTimeHours = inputs.trainingDataSizeGB * trainingTimePerHourGB * inputs.numEpochs; const engineerCost = estimatedTrainingTimeHours * inputs.hourlyRateSeattle; const infrastructureCost = estimatedTrainingTimeHours * inputs.infrastructureCostPerHour; const totalFineTuningCost = (engineerCost + infrastructureCost) * inputs.numSessions; return { totalFineTuningCost: totalFineTuningCost, estimatedTrainingTimeHours: estimatedTrainingTimeHours };Training Data Size (GB)
100
Base LLM Model
GPT-3.5 Turbo
Number of Epochs
3
Hourly Rate of ML Engineer (Seattle)
150
Cloud Infrastructure Cost per Hour
5
Number of Fine-Tuning Sessions
3
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With the default inputs (100 GB of training data, 3 epochs, $150 per ML engineer hour, $5 per cloud infrastructure hour, and 3 fine-tuning sessions), this calculator returns an estimated fine-tuning cost of $27,900 and an estimated training time of 60 hours. The current formula is driven by data size, epochs, hourly rates, and session count; the model selector is scenario context and does not change the returned totals.
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The estimate combines Training Data Size (GB), Base LLM Model, Number of Epochs and returns Total Estimated Fine-Tuning Cost, Estimated Training Time (Hours).
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