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ClusterMAX goodput-expense model: rounded range of paid GPU-hours lost to failures and recovery across the provider scenarios

6-21% of GPU-hoursmodeled

Value kindmodeled — Interpret this value according to its displayed kind, scope, source, and as-of date.
ScopeScenario outputs for representative provider profiles, not sampled provider loss rates. Goodput expense prices extra rental time or reduced output, and includes fault-tolerance performance overhead and spare capacity as modeled.
As of2025
SourceSemiAnalysis ClusterMAX 2.0
Reviewchecking…review by 2026-11-23 · standard cadence
Recorded changeslast 2026-07-13
Claim idreliability-tax-paid-gpu-hours-lost-to-failures

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