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GPU compute pricesEdition of 12 Nov 2026
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Glossary

GPU-hour

Answer in brief

A GPU-hour is one GPU running for one hour, and it is the unit that lets machines of different sizes be compared on one line.

GPU-hour in practice

A machine with eight GPUs running for one hour uses eight GPU-hours. Dividing its hourly price by eight gives its price per GPU-hour.

The unit is fair for comparison and misleading as a budget. What you pay each hour is the per-GPU-hour price times the number of GPUs in the smallest machine you can rent. Every price on this site is per GPU-hour, with that smallest rental beside it.

Questions and answers

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A GPU-hour is one GPU running for one hour, and it is the unit that lets machines of different sizes be compared on one line.

Sources for this entry

  1. Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the range of GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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Compute Price Watch. “GPU-hour.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://computepricewatch.com/glossary/gpu-hour