- Ability to view in browser - Ability to share with collaborators - Ability to add figures to experiment reports

The hosted aspect is great and if you avoid storing large artifacts, too many histograms, or too many images, it's very cheap or free even for heavy usage. I often run training on remote systems and checking the eval outputs remotely can be a pain with other software like TensorFlow. You need to be sure to run the server on your instance to view the dashboard. With W&B you get comparably powerful features, and you don't need to do anything but run your train script. In addition to hosting, the Sweeps functionality is excellent for hyper-parameter sweeping and pre-determined groups of runs in multi-task settings.

Managing runs that are lauched across different machines