RunPod
Per-GPU cloud billed by the second, with community and secure tiers and no minimum commitment.
- GPU compute
- Not documented
- Not documented
- Not documented
Who it suits.
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.
Consider something else if…
The catalogue mixes community and secure capacity, so the cheapest quoted rate is not always the tier a production workload should sit on.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
What the documentation says.
Each value below links to the page it was read from, with the sentence it came from. Criteria RunPod does not publish are not listed.
Storage
Storage price
Persistent storage from $0.05 per GB per month, in standard and high-performance tiers.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — RunPod ↗
“persistent storage options starting at $0.05/GB/mo with standard and high-performance tiers”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
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.
Sources (1) →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
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.
Sources (1) →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
Largest GPU offered
288GB per GPU on B300; B200 at 180GB is $6.79 an hour and H200 at 141GB is $4.59.
Sources (1) →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
Billing granularity
Per second, with per-hour rates shown for comparison. Clusters can be started with no commitment and scaled to 64 GPUs.
Sources (1) →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
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
RunPod in the news
- QumulusAI Completes Deployment of All 616 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs for Runpod, Weeks Ahead of Schedule - Yahoo Finance
- Shadeform Hires Fluidstack, RunPod Veterans to Expand GPU Infrastructure Supply - citybiz
- RunPod vs Lambda vs Vast.ai: GPU Pricing 2026 - tech-insider.org
- The 24 Largest US Funding Rounds of June 2026 - AlleyWatch