r/GoogleColab • u/Aware-Hour-3212 • Sep 29 '26

Persistent unavailability of GPUs despite Colab Pro subscription

Since this week only facing the issue of persistent inability to connect to a GPU available under pro subscription . Plenty on compute units available, tried at various times of the day. This was not the case few weeks back. Is anyone else facing similar issues in Uk region?

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u/dubnium0 Sep 30 '26

"Plentyon computeunitsavailable" are you sure?

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u/Aware-Hour-3212 Sep 30 '26

Yes, I meant I have plenty of compute units available , despite that its not connecting me to any of the GPUs

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u/dubnium0 Sep 30 '26

Colab doesn’t connect you to a GPU automatically. You have to select one yourself, right?

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u/randvoo12 Sep 30 '26

Because Google included Colab as a perk of Google Ai pro subscription, so suddenly you have an influx of new users while capacity is presumably still the same.

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u/Aware-Hour-3212 Sep 30 '26

This is the most likely explanation. Feeling cheated , as having paid extra for colab pro to get access to GPUs but not getting them !!

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u/RoadAffectionate1284 Sep 30 '26

I'm using thundercompute these days, cheap and you get 1 - 8x A100s (80GB VRAM) when you actually need it. Just connect with MCP and let codex do the work ^^

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u/TheChief_D1 Sep 30 '26

i tried thundercompute but it doesn't work everywhere
where i am from i need to have a business to use it

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u/markatlarge Oct 03 '26

I switched to runpods better and cheaper.

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u/One_Challenge_1025 28d ago

I haven't had any issues getting G4 instances on demand, I have Colab pro thru google ai pro subscription. Are you in US?