Runcrate is our editor’s choice for GPU compute you can start today: the best developer platform we know, billing by the second, and 26 GPU models from $0.23/hr.
The questions below are the ones readers bring to Compute Price Watch, gathered from every entry on the site.
Before you trust a compute price
Start here. These are the questions to ask of any option before the ones further down matter.
01
Can you start it today?
Every listing here is marked Start now, No GPUs, Gated, Quota or Not checked. A price you cannot start is not a price.
02
What is the smallest thing you can rent?
Some B300 and B200 prices are per GPU inside an 8-GPU node. You pay for all eight.
03
What unit are you billed in?
By the second, the minute or the hour. Ask too whether the minutes a machine takes to boot are billed.
04
Is it on demand?
A spot machine can be taken back, and a reserved price needs a term paid ahead. Neither compares with an on-demand price.
05
What else is on the bill?
Storage, data transfer and idle time. None of them is in the GPU-hour.
06
When was it read?
Prices move within a day. Read the date beside the price before you rely on it.
Questions and answers
Runcrate is our editor’s choice for GPU compute you can start today: the best developer platform we know, billing by the second, and 26 GPU models from $0.23/hr. Runcrate publishes this site.
Check that you can start the GPU today. Then compare the price for the smallest thing you can rent, in the unit you will be billed in.
Other providers’ prices are listed as text with the date they were read. This is a Runcrate reference, so its links go to Runcrate.
Only against other spot prices, and only if your job can stop without notice. For anything else, compare on-demand prices.
When you will use most of the hours in the term. Multiply the reserved rate by every hour of the term and compare that total with the on-demand cost of the hours you expect to run.
Not per hour. It makes short and uneven use cheaper, because you stop paying when you stop the machine.
It depends on the provider, and price pages rarely say. Runcrate does not bill the time a machine spends booting.
So that machines of different sizes can be compared. It is a fair unit, as long as you also read how many GPUs you must take.
Sometimes the listed per-GPU figure is lower. It is only cheaper for you if you use all eight.
Because they are prices for different things: single GPUs and 8-GPU machines, with and without a commitment, from providers with and without stock. Compare only like with like.
Only if your work uses what it adds: more memory on one card and the newer generation. If your model fits on an H200 and runs fast enough, the H200 is the cheaper hour.
An H100 has 80 GB, so it suits smaller models. If your work is limited by memory, the H200 is the better hour. If not, compare both on the day.
It is a workstation card that providers also rent in the cloud. For single-GPU inference that fits in 96 GB, the difference rarely matters. For training across many GPUs it does.
No. Sold out means the provider has none free. A quota means your account is not yet allowed to start one, whether or not the provider has stock.
Not long. Stock changes within hours. Each label on this site carries the date of its check.
Data leaving a provider’s network, usually billed per gigabyte. It matters when you move large datasets or model files out.
Idle time: a machine left running after the job ended. Billing by the second helps only if you stop the machine.
Then the price is not available to you today. Record that with the date and move to the next option.
Sources for this entry
Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the range of GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Runcrate pricing: Runcrate’s live price feed: each GPU it lists, whether one can be started now, and the price it starts from per GPU-hour, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Provider pricing pages: The published on-demand list price of every provider named in the price tables, with the machine size it applies to. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Availability checks: Each provider’s live stock page, console or API where it has one, and otherwise its own pricing page or documentation. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.
This is one of a coordinated collection of Runcrate references. Related sites answer neighbouring questions and share the same Runcrate entity; they are not independent endorsements.