Likenor

Run in the cloud

Train your likeness on a GPU you rent in your own RunPod account, from a switch inside the app. For a computer whose graphics card is not enough, and for an owner who would rather not wait.

Who this is for

Two kinds of owner. One has a graphics card that falls short of what a training run needs. The other has a card that can do it and would rather have the likeness back in a couple of hours than give this computer up to it for longer. The app tells you which you are before you start: the New likeness screen shows its estimate for this computer, and beside it the cards RunPod has in stock right now, with the time and cost of your run beside each card that has been timed.

Likenor does not host training

Likenor never hosts or resells compute. Your photographs stay on this computer unless you choose to rent a GPU, and a rented run leaves this computer for a third-party provider Likenor does not own.

The provider is RunPod. The account is yours: you open it, you put credit on it, and you make the keys the app uses. Your photographs go to a small store in your own RunPod account, one that exists only for the length of the run and is deleted when your likeness has arrived, and to the card that reads it. Both are yours. Likenor holds no key to your account and receives no copy. You pay RunPod directly for the GPU. Likenor charges for the software and never for the computing that runs it.

What happens

  1. On the Cloud GPU screen you paste in the keys from your RunPod account and tick where a rented run may take your photographs: Europe, North America, or anywhere RunPod has a place. A computer set to a European region starts with Europe ticked.
  2. On the New likeness screen a switch says where the training runs: This computer, or A GPU you rent. Under it are the cards RunPod has in stock, with the rate and the stock as RunPod reports them from the last minute. A card that has been timed shows the time and cost of your run beside it; one that has not says so, and one RunPod quotes no rate for shows no cost.
  3. When you start, Likenor creates a small store in your account, sends it the photographs you accepted for training, and raises a worker on the card. The card fetches the model first, about 35 GB, which took about 4 minutes on a rented card measured on 16 September 2026, and then trains. Choosing and preparing the photographs happened on this computer, and only the accepted set goes.
  4. Your likeness comes back to this computer and is checked. The store is deleted when the likeness has arrived, or when the run fails or is stopped, and the endpoint goes back to zero workers when the last run on it has finished, which costs nothing. A store that could not be deleted is deleted before the next rented run, and the Cloud GPU screen lists any that is left, with a control to delete it. Nothing stays behind.

The store exists only for the length of the run and is deleted when your likeness has arrived. It is 10 GB, the smallest RunPod makes, and costs under a cent for a run at the rate RunPod published on 15 September 2026. What runs on the card is a public container image; The worker image says what it holds and what it does not.

One card, worked through

The card to start with is the RTX PRO 4500, 32 GB, at $1.15 an hour on RunPod Serverless, read from RunPod's pricing page on 18 September 2026.

One run of 1,200 steps was measured on it on 17 September 2026, in a European data centre. The run waited about 5 minutes in RunPod's queue for a card. The card then fetched the model and trained at 4.75 seconds a step, running for 100 minutes from start to finish, the model fetch included. At $1.15 an hour that is about $2.

That is one run, not an average. It held part of the model in the machine's main memory rather than on the card as it trained, so its pace is a ceiling for that card rather than the card's own; a run that holds the model whole has not been measured yet. The app works out the time and cost of your own run from the measured pace and the rate RunPod quotes at that moment, and shows both before you start. Budget against the figure in the app, not the one on this page.

RunPod bills your balance while the card is working, so credit goes on the account before the first run. Stock moves by the hour, and a card with none free may not be there when you want it.

One provider today

This page names one provider because the app drives one. No other provider has been measured, so none is compared here, and no price appears on this page that was not read on the day written beside it.

Before you start

Download the app. It is free, and it tells you what this computer can do before you rent anything. What a rented run does with your photographs is also in Privacy and Terms.