Pricing models
On-demand, spot and reserved compute prices
One GPU carries three prices, on demand, spot and reserved, and only the on-demand price compares across providers without reading the terms.
GPU compute prices
Topics
Answer in brief
10 short entries on the questions people ask around GPU compute prices. Each opens with its answer, then gives the detail and the terms behind it.
All topics
Billing
Per-second, per-minute and per-hour billing
The billing unit decides what a short job costs: the same hourly price bills a ten-minute run as ten minutes, or as a full hour.
Rental size
What an 8-GPU node really costs
A per-GPU price inside an 8-GPU node is one eighth of what you pay: the node is the smallest thing you can rent, so the hourly bill is eight times the listed figure.
GPU prices
B300 compute price
The B300 is the newest and most expensive NVIDIA GPU in these tables, and the one whose listed price is least likely to be a price you can start.
GPU prices
B200 compute price
The B200 is the practical Blackwell GPU for most buyers in 2026: priced below a B300, with more memory than an H200.
GPU prices
H200 compute price
The H200 is the last Hopper GPU and, in 2026, the easiest large datacenter card to rent by the hour: many providers list it and several rent a single one.
GPU prices
RTX Pro 6000 compute price
The RTX Pro 6000 puts 96 GB on a single Blackwell card for less per hour than the datacenter GPUs in these tables, and most providers rent it one GPU at a time.
Availability
Why a listed GPU cannot be started
A GPU on a price page can fail to start for three reasons: the provider is sold out, the card is gated behind sales or approval, or your account has no quota for it.
Billing
The hidden lines of a compute bill
The GPU-hour is the largest line on a compute bill but rarely the only one: storage, data leaving the provider and hours a machine sat idle are billed too.
Practical
How to check a compute price in five minutes
You can test any compute price in five minutes: find the unit, find the smallest rental, try to start it, and write down the date.
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.
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.
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Cite this entry
Compute Price Watch. “Topics.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://computepricewatch.com/topics