[Python] Best student-friendly cloud GPU provider and seamless dev workflow for on-prem RAG...

I’m a university student building an on-pre agentic RAG in Python with LangChain/LangGraph and Ollama. My Intel i9 laptop is too slow for even small LLMs(llama3.2:3b), and the on-prem GPU server won’t be free for a few weeks. I’ve tried a few cloud GPUs, but idle time billing makes them too expensive for a student budget.

I’m looking for student-friendly cloud GPU options:

• Free or discounted credits
• Low idle-time costs
• Simple Langchain integration so that once the on-prem server is available, I can point the same code at it without or little changes.

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