Why Nodegrove exists.

The questions we answer

Before you download a 40 GB model, buy a card or open an account with a GPU cloud, you want to know three things: does it fit, what will it cost and how fast is it, and where should it run. Each answer is hard to get today. Model cards rarely say what a model needs beyond its weights, provider pages show an hourly price but not what one job costs, and comparisons are often written by a provider about itself.

So we built the answers ourselves: six free tools that check a model or a ComfyUI workflow against a card, reference pages for every model and GPU we cover, cloud price comparisons with the date each price was read, and jobs we measured on rented GPUs, so a cost or a speed here is something we saw, not something we were told.

How we work, and how you can check

Anyone can write a paragraph about being honest. These are the specific things we do, each on a page you can read now:

• We label every number. Each figure is a published specification, a formula written out on the page, a measurement with its date and card, or a number you typed in. How we measure.
• We say how we make money. Labelled referral links, and nothing else. A link that pays us says so, and a payment never changes a verdict. How we stay independent.
• We tell you what we collect. The privacy notice describes what the code actually does, field by field, including what we deliberately do not store. The checkers read your files in your browser and never upload them.
• We would rather be cited than protected. The tools are free and need no sign-up, and you may quote them anywhere with a link back. The numbers behind them are open data under CC BY 4.0, archived on Zenodo with a DOI, and the same maths answers AI assistants through our MCP server.

Three rules for every verdict

• "Cheaper" says cheaper than what, for which job, at the price you pay at the till.
• Benchmarks are ours, or credited. A number from someone else is labelled as theirs, with a link.
• A tight fit is shown as tight, and a verdict stays an estimate until you run the job.

Where this stands

Everything here is free: the site, the tools, the data and the MCP server, with a monthly email for the numbers that change. Labelled referral links are how it pays for itself.

Who we are

An independent project, run by its founder. The person who reads info@nodegrove.io is the person who builds the site and runs the measurements.

Questions, disagreements, or a number on this site you think is wrong: info@nodegrove.io. Corrections get made in public, in the same place as the error.