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Foundry may fine-tune offshore.
We train in Australia.

Microsoft says fine-tuning launched from Australia East runs on Global or Developer training, and neither guarantees data residency. Here you train onshore from Matilda Code or any MCP-capable coding agent or IDE, pay by the GPU-hour with no hosting fee, and keep the weights.

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Matilda Train and Microsoft Foundry, side by side

Where training runs, which models you can tune, whether you get the weights and what keeps a model online.

Checked against each provider’s documentation and price lists on 13 October 2026

FeatureMatilda TrainHosted in AustraliaMicrosoft FoundryFormerly Azure AI Foundry
Where training runsIn AustraliaFrom Australia East, Global or Developer training. Microsoft says neither guarantees data residency; regional training is US and EU only
Models you can trainAny open-weight model your code can load, with LoRA or full-parameter trainingGPT-4.1 family, o4-mini (reinforcement fine-tuning) and a short list of open models such as Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen3-32B and gpt-oss-20b
Download the weightsYes, every checkpointNo documented way to download a fine-tuned OpenAI model
Keeping the model onlineNothing to pay. It’s a file you own.US$1.70 an hour per deployed fine-tune, with or without traffic: about US$1,241 a month
Newest training GPUs in AustraliaAMD MI355X and NVIDIA B300GB200, H200, H100 and MI300X VMs; H100 lists at A$25.39 per GPU-hour
How you pay for trainingPer GPU-hour, A$9.35 including GST on demand, data transfer includedPer training token, or per hour for o4-mini reinforcement fine-tuning
Help porting your codeA Maincode data scientist, includedPaid Azure support plans

When to stay put. If you need a fine-tuned GPT-4.1 or o4-mini and will only ever serve it on Azure, use Foundry. Choose Matilda Train when you want to own the model, keep training in Australia, or train something their menus don’t offer.

One 70B fine-tune, priced in Australia

The GPU-hour price is half the story.
The other half is how long the run takes.

Cost of one run, Australian dollarsMLPerf Llama 2 70B fine-tune · 8 GPUs · on-demand prices excluding GST

Matilda TrainMI355X · 10.18 min

A$11.54

AWS SydneyH100 · 27.54 min

A$47.06

Google Cloud SydneyH100 · 27.54 min

A$64.43

Azure Australia EastH100 · 27.54 min

A$93.23

Vendor-submitted MLPerf Training results, times each provider’s on-demand GPU-hour price in its Australian region. Your workload will differ.

2.7× faster

than the best published 8× H100 result: 10.18 against 27.54 minutes

4× cheaper

per run than AWS Sydney on demand: A$11.54 against A$47.06, excluding GST

From a prompt to your own weights, in three steps

No console to learn and no cluster to run. If you can ask your coding agent for a change, you can ask it for a model.

  1. Step 01

    Connect your agent

    Add one remote MCP server to Matilda Code, or any MCP-capable coding agent or IDE, then approve the connection in your browser. Any client that supports remote MCP over HTTP with OAuth works.

    MCP endpoint · HTTP + OAuth
    https://train.matilda.com/mcp/research
  2. Step 02

    Ask for the model you want

    Describe the run in plain language. Your agent stages the data, checks the request against your limits with research_validate, then submits a durable job that keeps running if you close the laptop.

    Example prompt
    Fine-tune Qwen3-8B on data/tickets.jsonl. Hold out 5% for eval, use 8 GPUs, and stop when eval loss stops improving.
  3. Step 03

    Take the weights

    Checkpoints and adapters land in your workspace. Download them through your agent, SSH or the HTTP API, and serve them anywhere you like.

    Your workspace
    runs/4f19a2/
├─ model/
│  ├─ config.json
│  └─ model-00001-of-00004.safetensors
├─ metrics.jsonl
└─ run-record.json

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Moving from Microsoft Foundry

More detail, examples and troubleshooting are in the researcher documentation.

How is this different from Bedrock, Google Cloud or Foundry fine-tuning?
Those managed services tune a fixed list of models, mostly in US or EU regions, and document no way to download a tuned Gemini, GPT-4.1 or Bedrock custom model. Matilda Train trains any open model in Australia and gives you the weights. If you specifically need a tuned Gemini or GPT-4.1, use their service. Compare each provider.
Do I own the model?
Yes. Checkpoints, adapters and merged weights are written to your workspace as standard files. Download them whenever you like and serve them anywhere. There’s no fee to keep them. The workspace guide covers downloads.
Which models can I train?
Any open-weight model your code can load, including the Qwen, Llama, Gemma, gpt-oss, Mistral and DeepSeek families. Use LoRA or QLoRA for quick adaptation, or full-parameter training when you need it. With 288 GB per GPU, larger models fit on fewer GPUs.
Which coding agents work?
Any client that supports remote MCP over HTTP with OAuth, including Matilda Code. You can start a client with read-only access and approve more permissions when a task needs them. The connection guide walks through it.
Where does my data go?
It stays on Australian infrastructure operated by Maincode. Each run is isolated, with its own identity and filesystem and no outbound internet, so training data can’t be sent elsewhere during a run. Other users, including people in your organisation, can’t see your files.

Bring your training.
Own the model.

Create your account, add compute credits and connect your coding agent. You pay by the GPU-hour, and every checkpoint is yours to download.

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