# RunPod vs Hyperstack

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/compare/runpod-vs-hyperstack/

Every value below is read from RunPod's and Hyperstack's own documentation. See https://inetgeek.com/methodology/ for how.

## At a glance

| Criterion | RunPod | Hyperstack |
| --- | --- | --- |
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hour | $3.49 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB, single card. The PCIe variant is $2.89 and H100 NVL is $3.19. | $3.20 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB on demand. The NVLink variant is $2.60 and the PCIe H100 is $2.50. |
| Cheapest GPU, per hour | $0.27 per hour for an RTX A5000 with 24GB. RTX 3090 is $0.50, RTX 4090 $0.74, L40S $1.09. | $0.15 per hour for an A4000 with 16GB; the A100 SXM 80GB is $1.60. |
| Largest GPU offered | 288GB per GPU on B300; B200 at 180GB is $6.79 an hour and H200 at 141GB is $4.59. | 288GB per GPU on B300 at $7.40 an hour; B200 at 192GB is $6.00. |
| Billing granularity | Per second, with per-hour rates shown for comparison. Clusters can be started with no commitment and scaled to 64 GPUs. | Per minute, with enterprise-scale contracts negotiated separately. |

## Where they differ

### H100 SXM, per GPU-hour

- RunPod: $3.49 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB, single card. The PCIe variant is $2.89 and H100 NVL is $3.19. ([source](https://www.runpod.io/pricing))
- Hyperstack: $3.20 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB on demand. The NVLink variant is $2.60 and the PCIe H100 is $2.50. ([source](https://www.hyperstack.cloud/gpu-pricing))

### Cheapest GPU, per hour

- RunPod: $0.27 per hour for an RTX A5000 with 24GB. RTX 3090 is $0.50, RTX 4090 $0.74, L40S $1.09. ([source](https://www.runpod.io/pricing))
- Hyperstack: $0.15 per hour for an A4000 with 16GB; the A100 SXM 80GB is $1.60. ([source](https://www.hyperstack.cloud/gpu-pricing))

### Largest GPU offered

- RunPod: 288GB per GPU on B300; B200 at 180GB is $6.79 an hour and H200 at 141GB is $4.59. ([source](https://www.runpod.io/pricing))
- Hyperstack: 288GB per GPU on B300 at $7.40 an hour; B200 at 192GB is $6.00. ([source](https://www.hyperstack.cloud/gpu-pricing))

### Billing granularity

- RunPod: Per second, with per-hour rates shown for comparison. Clusters can be started with no commitment and scaled to 64 GPUs. ([source](https://www.runpod.io/pricing))
- Hyperstack: Per minute, with enterprise-scale contracts negotiated separately. ([source](https://www.hyperstack.cloud/gpu-pricing))

## Which should you choose?

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.

Pick Hyperstack if Steady European workloads that can commit — reserved H200 at $2.79 against $3.99 on demand is the clearest published discount in this set, and egress is free.

Consider something else: RunPod — The catalogue mixes community and secure capacity, so the cheapest quoted rate is not always the tier a production workload should sit on.

Consider something else: Hyperstack — Billing is per minute rather than per second, so very short jobs round up in a way they do not at RunPod.

## Documented by only one

- Egress over allowance: Hyperstack: Free. Egress and ingress traffic are not charged; a public IP address costs $0.00672043 per hour.
- Storage price: RunPod: Persistent storage from $0.05 per GB per month, in standard and high-performance tiers.
- Reserved pricing: Hyperstack: Published reserved rates rather than a percentage: H200 SXM falls from $3.99 on demand to $2.79 reserved, about 30% below.

## Questions this comparison answers

**Should I choose RunPod or Hyperstack?**

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.
Pick Hyperstack if Steady European workloads that can commit — reserved H200 at $2.79 against $3.99 on demand is the clearest published discount in this set, and egress is free.