Member finds
Member finds are prices for AI plans, graphics cards, and rented compute that you can check again tomorrow. The public list and the votes are not open yet. Until then these checks are the method, and an editor reads a tip before it is published.
Member finds
Beginner
Write down the offer before you trust it
A member find is a price you can check again tomorrow. Before you act on one, write down four things: the link, the price you would actually pay, the date you saw it, and the job it pays for. The job might be a chat plan, an image tool, an API bill, or a graphics card.
Start with a plan you already know. Open the seller's own pricing page and put the ordinary price beside the offer. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google publish their plan and API prices themselves. A code for ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini is worth keeping only when you can see the end date, whether it is limited to new accounts, and the price that starts when the code ends. A free month that becomes a paid plan is a timed grant. Write the end date and the renewal price on the same line.
Buying from a company over the internet in Sweden usually includes 14 days to cancel, under the distance-contracts rules. A purchase from a private person stands outside that 14-day rule. Konsumentverket sets out both cases. If the link pays the person who shared it, the first line of the note has to say so. The Swedish Marketing Act requires advertising to be recognizable as advertising.
Check a plan or a discount code
I am looking at this offer. Link and price: [paste]. Compare it with the seller's current public price page. List the end date, who can use any code (new accounts only, or anyone), and the price charged when the offer ends. Say whether the seller appears to be a company or a private person, and what that means for a 14-day cancellation in Sweden. Then write a four-line note I can keep: link, price I would actually pay (tax and fees included), date I saw it, and the job this pays for. If the link might pay a commission to the person who shared it, put that in the first line of the note.
Intermediate
A cheaper card still needs a memory number and a price log
Video memory, written VRAM, is the memory on the graphics card. A model has to fit there, with room left for the conversation, while it runs. For a home machine, the useful hunt is 16 to 24 GB. NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3090 page lists 24 GB of GDDR6X. A listing that says only "3090" has skipped that number. Ask for 24 GB in the listing text, and for a photo of the card.
A lower price is marked "confirmed against history" only after 30 days of logged prices for the same item: same model, same memory size, same kind of seller. The price you compare includes shipping. With no log yet, mark the offer unchecked and start the log yourself: date, seller, URL, total price, VRAM.
On Tradera, check whether the seller is a business or a private person before you bid. A private sale follows the Sale of Goods Act. The parties can agree terms that replace parts of that Act, and there is no statutory 14-day cancellation. Posts on r/LocalLLaMA are conversation about running models at home. Confirm the memory size on the maker's page. Hugging Face Daily Papers shows which new models people are reading; check their sizes to see whether 24 GB is still enough.
Quantization stores a model's numbers with fewer bits, so a tight model can fit in 24 GB. Quality can change. Log the memory size printed on the card anyway.
Read a used-GPU listing against a 30-day rule
Here is a used graphics-card listing: [paste the full text, price, shipping, and seller description]. Extract the exact model, the stated VRAM, whether the seller is a shop or a private person, and the total price including shipping. List every fact that is missing before this can be logged. I may also name a model I want to run. Explain in plain words whether 16–24 GB is enough for that model, and what quantization would change about fit and quality. Call the price "confirmed against history" only if I also paste a 30-day log for the same model, the same memory size, and the same kind of seller. Otherwise label it unchecked.
Expert
Free tiers, rented hours, and surplus server cards
Read the provider's own data terms before company text goes into a free account.
On OpenAI's plans for individuals (Free, Plus, and Pro), content may be used to train models unless you turn off "Improve the model for everyone". By default, Business, Enterprise, Edu, and the API stay out of training.
Anthropic's August 2025 consumer update covers Claude Free, Pro, and Max, including Claude Code on those plans. If you allow chats to improve Claude, new or resumed chats can be kept for five years. If you decline, retention stays at 30 days. Claude for Work and the API sit outside that update.
Google's Gemini API terms treat unpaid AI Studio and unpaid API quota as Unpaid Services. Outside the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK, Google uses prompts and replies to improve its products, and human reviewers may read them. Send no confidential material. In the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK, paid-service data terms cover unpaid quota too, and an app offered to users there has to use paid services. The terms page is licensed CC BY 4.0.
Log a rented hour as GPU, disk, and the date. Runpod bills by the second and wipes container disk when a Pod stops. Vast.ai interruptible bids can be paused, so keep a checkpoint. Lambda bills on-demand by the minute. A screenshot with no date stays unchecked. On a surplus server card, read memory, watts, and cooling in the datasheet. Passive cards need chassis airflow. An SXM board needs its own socket. For an API offer, write down both published rates and the date.
Can this free tier hold company data?
I want to use this account for work: [name the provider and the exact plan, such as a free chat account, a business workspace, or an API key]. Using only the provider's current official terms, say whether this is a consumer plan or a business/API plan, whether prompts and replies may be used to train models, and how long they are kept. If the place I work from is Sweden, say what the Gemini API terms require for users in the EEA. Then, from the rental prices I paste, split one hour into GPU compute and disk, and flag a passive-cooled card or an SXM board. Give the URL of each official page you used, and quote the rule in your own short words.
What every note contains
Use this on every tip, including one you only keep for yourself.
- Link to the offer, and the ordinary price on the seller's own page.
- Price you would pay, with tax, shipping, and any fee written out.
- Date and time you saw it, and the date the offer ends.
- The job: chat plan, image tool, API tokens, home graphics card, or rented GPU hour.
- For a card: exact model and VRAM. For a rental: GPU hour and disk as two lines.
- Seller type: company or private person.
- Commission: if the link pays the poster, the first line says so.
Three logs, one label
| Kind of find | What "cheap" means here | What you keep for 30 days |
|---|---|---|
| Plan or discount code | A timed grant with an end date and a renewal price | The public list price beside the code, each week |
| Home graphics card | Same model, same VRAM, same seller type, shipping included, below the log | Date, URL, total price, VRAM, shop or private |
| Rented GPU hour | Compute and disk split, and the rate still on the provider's page | The provider, GPU, hourly rate, and the date of the screenshot |
A free quota is logged as a grant with an end date. It waits for a usual price before anyone calls it a price drop. A note with no 30-day log stays labeled unchecked, however useful the tip is.
Figures to check, and the alert rule
These are the documents behind the card and rental checks. Prices on the cloud pages move. The datasheet figures describe the hardware and do not change.
- NVIDIA V100 datasheet, January 2020: PCIe boards at 16 GB or 32 GB of HBM2, 250 W, passive cooling. The SXM2 board is 32 GB of HBM2, 300 W, passive, on NVLink, for its own server socket.
- Tesla P40 product brief: 24 GB of GDDR5, 250 W, passive cooling that needs air pushed through the chassis.
- Lambda instance pricing, read on 20 October 2026: the 8-GPU row with 16 GB, 88 vCPUs, 448 GiB of RAM and 5.8 TiB of SSD was $0.79 per GPU-hour. That spec row is the Tesla V100. Read the live table before you repeat the dollar figure.
- Runpod Pod pricing: on-demand capacity is held for you and billed by the second. Savings plans can no longer be bought. An existing plan runs until it expires and covers GPU compute only. Storage is billed on top, including a stopped volume disk. Container disk is temporary and is erased when the Pod stops.
- Vast.ai instance types: an interruptible instance is a low-priority bid. On-demand has higher priority and can pause it. Save work to disk. A paused instance has already stopped the job.
Once member voting exists, 10 or more upvotes is the planned trigger for a Discord or Telegram alert. The 30-day log still sets the label.
A shared community DGX Station would run models that need more than 24 GB of video memory, and the results would go into the open library. About the shared station
Sources
- Right of withdrawal (ångerrätt)Swedish Consumer Agency: 14 days to cancel a distance purchase from a company, and no statutory withdrawal when you buy from a private person.
- Buying from a private personThe Sale of Goods Act applies between private people, and a written agreement can replace parts of it. Consumer-purchase rules apply when the seller is a business.
- The Swedish Marketing Act, for consumersAdvertising has to be recognizable as advertising, and it has to be clear who is behind it. That is the basis for the commission line on a tip.
- How OpenAI uses data to improve modelsFree, Plus, and Pro content may be used for training unless you turn the control off. Business, Enterprise, Edu, and the API are excluded by default.
- Anthropic's 2025 consumer terms updateCovers Claude Free, Pro, and Max, including Claude Code on those plans. Opting in can mean five-year retention of new chats. Work and API plans sit under the commercial terms.
- Gemini API additional termsUnpaid Services, the EEA/Switzerland/UK exception, and the paid-services rule for apps offered to users there. Effective 23 March 2026. The page text is under CC BY 4.0.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090Official spec: 24 GB of GDDR6X. Use this when a listing says 3090 and never states the memory.
- NVIDIA V100 datasheet (January 2020)PCIe 16 GB or 32 GB HBM2 at 250 W, and SXM2 32 GB at 300 W. Both are passive-cooled. NVIDIA product literature.