CoreWeave vs RunPod
A comparison of CoreWeave and RunPod built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
- Pick CoreWeave if
- Training runs that want a whole HGX node and move large datasets — free egress and free I/O operations remove the charge that usually dominates a data-heavy job.
- Pick RunPod if
- Short experiments and bursty inference — per-second billing and a $0.27 entry card mean an idle hour costs nothing and a small job is genuinely small.
4 sourced criteria separate them:
- Storage price
- CoreWeave: $0.06 per GB per month for hot AI object storage, and $0.070 per GB per month for the tier listed beside it.
- RunPod: Persistent storage from $0.05 per GB per month, in standard and high-performance tiers.
- H100 SXM, per GPU-hour
- CoreWeave: $6.16 per GPU-hour for H100 SXM 80GB. CoreWeave sells the 8-GPU HGX H100 node at $49.24/hour on demand — the per-GPU figure is that divided by eight, ours rather than CoreWeave's, and you cannot rent one card.
- RunPod: $3.49 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB, single card. The PCIe variant is $2.89 and H100 NVL is $3.19.
- Cheapest GPU, per hour
- CoreWeave: $1.25 per GPU-hour for L40, again as an 8-GPU node at $10.00/hour. A100 80GB nodes are $21.60/hour, or $2.70 per GPU.
- RunPod: $0.27 per hour for an RTX A5000 with 24GB. RTX 3090 is $0.50, RTX 4090 $0.74, L40S $1.09.
- Largest GPU offered
- CoreWeave: 288GB per GPU on B300-class hardware; the largest listed on-demand node is HGX B200 at 180GB per GPU, eight GPUs, $68.80/hour.
- RunPod: 288GB per GPU on B300; B200 at 180GB is $6.79 an hour and H200 at 141GB is $4.59.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
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At a glance.
| Criterion | CoreWeave | RunPod |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | ||
| Storage price | $0.06 per GB per month for hot AI object storage, and $0.070 per GB per month for the tier listed beside it. | Persistent storage from $0.05 per GB per month, in standard and high-performance tiers. |
| GPU | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hour | $6.16 per GPU-hour for H100 SXM 80GB. CoreWeave sells the 8-GPU HGX H100 node at $49.24/hour on demand — the per-GPU figure is that divided by eight, ours rather than CoreWeave's, and you cannot rent one card. | $3.49 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB, single card. The PCIe variant is $2.89 and H100 NVL is $3.19. |
| Cheapest GPU, per hour | $1.25 per GPU-hour for L40, again as an 8-GPU node at $10.00/hour. A100 80GB nodes are $21.60/hour, or $2.70 per GPU. | $0.27 per hour for an RTX A5000 with 24GB. RTX 3090 is $0.50, RTX 4090 $0.74, L40S $1.09. |
| Largest GPU offered | 288GB per GPU on B300-class hardware; the largest listed on-demand node is HGX B200 at 180GB per GPU, eight GPUs, $68.80/hour. | 288GB per GPU on B300; B200 at 180GB is $6.79 an hour and H200 at 141GB is $4.59. |
Where they differ.
Storage price
- CoreWeave
- $0.06 per GB per month for hot AI object storage, and $0.070 per GB per month for the tier listed beside it.
- RunPod
- Persistent storage from $0.05 per GB per month, in standard and high-performance tiers.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — CoreWeave ↗
“CoreWeave AI Object Storage Hot $0.06/GB/mo [...] $0.070/GB/mo”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — RunPod ↗
“persistent storage options starting at $0.05/GB/mo with standard and high-performance tiers”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
H100 SXM, per GPU-hour
- CoreWeave
- $6.16 per GPU-hour for H100 SXM 80GB. CoreWeave sells the 8-GPU HGX H100 node at $49.24/hour on demand — the per-GPU figure is that divided by eight, ours rather than CoreWeave's, and you cannot rent one card.
- RunPod
- $3.49 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB, single card. The PCIe variant is $2.89 and H100 NVL is $3.19.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — CoreWeave ↗
“NVIDIA HGX H100 8 80 128 2,048 61.44 $49.24 NVIDIA HGX H100 On-Demand”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — RunPod ↗
“H100 SXM 80 GB VRAM 125 GB RAM 20 vCPUs $ 3.49 /hr [...] H100 PCIe 80 GB VRAM 188 GB RAM 16 vCPUs $ 2.89 /hr [...] H100 NVL 94 GB VRAM 94 GB RAM 16 vCPUs $ 3.19 /hr”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Cheapest GPU, per hour
- CoreWeave
- $1.25 per GPU-hour for L40, again as an 8-GPU node at $10.00/hour. A100 80GB nodes are $21.60/hour, or $2.70 per GPU.
- RunPod
- $0.27 per hour for an RTX A5000 with 24GB. RTX 3090 is $0.50, RTX 4090 $0.74, L40S $1.09.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — CoreWeave ↗
“NVIDIA L40 8 48 128 1,024 7.68 $10.00 [...] NVIDIA A100 8 80 128 2,048 7.68 $21.60”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — RunPod ↗
“RTX A5000 24 GB VRAM 25 GB RAM 9 vCPUs $ 0.27 /hr [...] RTX 3090 24 GB VRAM [...] $ 0.5 /hr [...] L40S 48 GB VRAM 94 GB RAM 16 vCPUs $ 1.09 /hr”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Largest GPU offered
288GB per GPU on B300-class hardware; the largest listed on-demand node is HGX B200 at 180GB per GPU, eight GPUs, $68.80/hour.
288GB per GPU on B300; B200 at 180GB is $6.79 an hour and H200 at 141GB is $4.59.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — CoreWeave ↗
“NVIDIA HGX B200 8 180 128 2,048 61.44 $68.80”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — RunPod ↗
“B300 288 GB HBM3e 251 GB RAM 32 vCPUs [...] B200 180 GB VRAM 283 GB RAM 28 vCPUs $ 6.79 /hr [...] H200 141 GB VRAM 276 GB RAM 24 vCPUs $ 4.59 /hr”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Which should you choose?
Choose CoreWeave if…
Training runs that want a whole HGX node and move large datasets — free egress and free I/O operations remove the charge that usually dominates a data-heavy job.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose RunPod if…
Short experiments and bursty inference — per-second billing and a $0.27 entry card mean an idle hour costs nothing and a small job is genuinely small.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- CoreWeave: You cannot rent a single card: the H100 is sold as an eight-GPU node at $49.24 an hour, so a one-GPU experiment costs eight GPUs.
- RunPod: The catalogue mixes community and secure capacity, so the cheapest quoted rate is not always the tier a production workload should sit on.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.
Questions this comparison answers.
Should I choose CoreWeave or RunPod?
Pick CoreWeave if Training runs that want a whole HGX node and move large datasets — free egress and free I/O operations remove the charge that usually dominates a data-heavy job.
Pick RunPod if Short experiments and bursty inference — per-second billing and a $0.27 entry card mean an idle hour costs nothing and a small job is genuinely small.