Understand your complete quote
Compare the exact service and total cost, not only a GPU headline rate.
Configuration and price unit
Confirm PCIe/SXM, VM/bare metal, GPUs per instance, number of instances, VRAM, CPU, RAM and disk. Ask whether the price is per GPU, per instance or per cluster. A different hardware variant can have a different price even when the GPU family name is the same.
Currency and itemised charges
Live on-demand pricing and prepaid billing use USD. AUD invoicing requires an explicit written enterprise agreement or existing AUD contract. Review compute, storage, network/IP, service fees and applicable taxes separately. Reference conversions are budget estimates; the accepted quote states the currency, total and any exchange-rate terms.
Worked example — arithmetic only
If a quote specifies a rate R per GPU-hour, two GPUs for 10 billable hours cost 20R for compute alone (R × 2 × 10). If R is instead the complete instance-hour rate, the same 10 hours cost 10R. Use the rate in your live price or quote, then add the actual storage, network, service and tax lines.
Before accepting
Confirm quote expiry, delivery date, minimum term, deposit, PO/reference and payment schedule. Ask when billing starts and ends, what remains chargeable while stopped, and cancellation or refund terms. Spot requests also need interruption, notice and data-recovery terms. Never infer a fixed total from a public GPU-only price.