RunPod vs Hyperstack
A comparison of RunPod and Hyperstack built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
- 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.
4 sourced criteria separate them:
- 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.
- Hyperstack: $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
- RunPod: $0.27 per hour for an RTX A5000 with 24GB. RTX 3090 is $0.50, RTX 4090 $0.74, L40S $1.09.
- Hyperstack: $0.15 per hour for an A4000 with 16GB; the A100 SXM 80GB is $1.60.
- Largest GPU offered
- RunPod: 288GB per GPU on B300; B200 at 180GB is $6.79 an hour and H200 at 141GB is $4.59.
- Hyperstack: 288GB per GPU on B300 at $7.40 an hour; B200 at 192GB is $6.00.
- Billing granularity
- RunPod: Per second, with per-hour rates shown for comparison. Clusters can be started with no commitment and scaled to 64 GPUs.
- Hyperstack: Per minute, with enterprise-scale contracts negotiated separately.
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 | RunPod | Hyperstack |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | ||
| 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.
- Hyperstack
- $3.20 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB on demand. The NVLink variant is $2.60 and the PCIe H100 is $2.50.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- GPU Pricing — Hyperstack ↗
“NVIDIA H100 SXM 80 24 240 $3.20 NVIDIA H100 NVLink 80 31 180 $2.60 NVIDIA H100 80 28 180 $2.50”
Read 2026-09-06 · official 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.
- Hyperstack
- $0.15 per hour for an A4000 with 16GB; the A100 SXM 80GB is $1.60.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- GPU Pricing — Hyperstack ↗
“NVIDIA A4000 16 6 24 $0.15 [...] NVIDIA A100 SXM 80 24 120 $1.60”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
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.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- GPU Pricing — Hyperstack ↗
“NVIDIA B200 192 31 256 $6.00 NVIDIA B300 288 28 240 $7.40”
Read 2026-09-06 · official 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.
- Hyperstack
- Per minute, with enterprise-scale contracts negotiated separately.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — RunPod ↗
“Per hour Per second [...] GPU clusters in minutes with no commitments. Scale up to 64 GPUs, attach shared storage, and pay only for what you use”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- GPU Pricing — Hyperstack ↗
“competitive pricing structure, billed per minute. For larger enterprise-scale contracts, please contact”
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 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
Choose 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.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- RunPod: The catalogue mixes community and secure capacity, so the cheapest quoted rate is not always the tier a production workload should sit on.
- 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.
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 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.