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GPU compute pricesEdition of 12 Nov 2026
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Glossary

Per-second billing

Answer in brief

Per-second billing charges for the exact time a machine ran, to the second, at the hourly rate divided down.

Per-second billing in practice

The unit matters for short and uneven work. A ten-minute run billed by the hour costs a full hour. Billed by the second it costs ten minutes.

Check two details beside the unit: whether each start carries a minimum charge, and whether the minutes a machine takes to boot are billed. Runcrate bills by the second on most GPUs, a few by the minute, and never bills booting.

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.

Per-second billing charges for the exact time a machine ran, to the second, at the hourly rate divided down.

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. “Per-second billing.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://computepricewatch.com/glossary/per-second-billing