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Training a 97.5M Python coding model from scratch for $1.40 in GPU time
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Dev.to | Oct 18, 2026 | Bedram Tamang
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The main pre-training run used about $1. 40 of rented GPU time. These are preliminary results: I haven't checked the training data for overlap with HumanEval. At 20 training tokens per parameter, a 1B model would call for about 20B tokens.
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