RunPod

PaidNew

GPU cloud with per-second billing for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference

4.1/5Editor's Rating

|Trustpilot: 3.5/5(231 reviews)

Starting at From $0.19/hrUpdated 2026-07-19

Overview

What is RunPod?

RunPod is a GPU cloud for developers who need serious compute without hyperscaler pricing: on-demand pods from $0.27/hr (RTX A5000) to $7.39/hr (B300), serverless endpoints with sub-200ms FlashBoot cold starts, and instant multi-node clusters. Billing is per second, egress is free, and one-click templates get open-source models running in minutes. Pay-as-you-go with no subscription; used by teams at Hugging Face, Perplexity, and Cursor.

Features

Key Features

On-demand GPU pods from RTX A5000 ($0.27/hr) to B300 ($7.39/hr), billed per second

Serverless endpoints with scale-to-zero and sub-200ms FlashBoot cold starts

Secure Cloud (data-center grade) plus cheaper Community Cloud capacity

Instant Clusters for multi-node training without a sales call

Hub with one-click templates for popular open-source models and tools

Native GitHub deployments with rollback

Network volumes from $0.07/GB/mo and zero ingress/egress fees

REST API and CLI for automation, default $80/hr spend cap as guardrail

Analysis

Pros & Cons

Pros

Among the cheapest rates anywhere for H100s and RTX 4090s, billed per second
No egress fees, where hyperscalers charge $0.09-0.12/GB on the way out
FlashBoot cold starts under 200ms make serverless inference genuinely usable
Huge GPU selection: roughly 20 types from consumer cards to B300
Pay-as-you-go with no subscription; a pod is live within minutes

Cons

Trustpilot 3.5/5: recurring reports of pods failing to start or crashing while billing continues
Stopped pods keep billing for storage; idle volume disk costs $0.20/GB/mo, double the running rate
GPU availability fluctuates at peak times, and the dashboard has shown unavailable GPUs as available
Community Cloud is cheaper but reliability varies; no SLA on standard plans
Spot pricing has been changed abruptly in the past (raised 25%, removed, re-gated behind the API)

Pricing

From $0.19/hr

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