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Runpod

Self-serve GPU cloud with per-second Pods, Instant Clusters and serverless endpoints

Mid-size cloudAMD GPUsInference

Runpod rents GPU Pods by the second from its own Secure Cloud or from third-party hosts in its Community Cloud, plus Instant Clusters of up to 64 GPUs and serverless endpoints. Its full rate card is public: Secure Cloud H100 SXM $3.99, H200 $5.29 and B200 $7.99 per GPU-hour, with no minimum runtime. It holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 and raised $100M at a $1B valuation in June 2026.

Best for: Startups and individual engineers who want self-serve GPUs billed per second.

ClusterMAX 3.0: Participation

  • ✓ Publishes prices
  • ✓ Serverless inference
  • ✓ AMD GPUs
  • – European data centers
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Facts checked November 9, 2026 against the sources listed below. Runpod does not pay to appear here.

1 Legal nameRunpod
2 HeadquartersNot disclosed
3 Founded2022
4 Funding or listingPrivate. $100M at a $1.0B valuation led by Summit Partners (Jun 2026).
5 How you rentOn-demand, Reserved clusters, Marketplace, Serverless inference
6 Minimum commitmentNone for Pods and Instant Clusters (per-second billing, no minimum runtime); Reserved Clusters from 3 months
7 InterconnectInstant Clusters: InfiniBand or RoCE v2, 1,600–3,200 Gbps east-west per node; up to 64 GPUs (8 nodes) on demand
8 OrchestrationSlurm (Instant Clusters), Runpod Pods, Serverless endpoints
9 GPUs offeredB300, B200, H200, H200 NVL, H100 SXM, H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, MI300X, RTX PRO 6000, A100, L40S, L40, RTX 6000 Ada, A40, RTX A6000, RTX 5090, L4, RTX 4090, RTX 3090, RTX A5000
10 RegionsNot disclosed
11 CertificationsSOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, ISO 27001:2022
12 Customers and partnersClaims Deep Cogito built its Cogito v1 models on Runpod; reported 1M+ developers and 20B+ serverless requests served (SiliconANGLE, Jun 2026).

Published prices

On-demand list prices per GPU-hour, as published on November 9, 2026. Reserved and negotiated prices are usually lower.
GPUPriceBasisSource
RTX 3090$0.50on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
A40$0.59on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
RTX A6000$0.59on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
L4$0.59on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
L40$0.82on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
RTX 4090$0.89on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
RTX 6000 Ada$0.99on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
L40S$1.09on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
RTX 5090$1.19on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
A100$1.79on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, SXMPricing page
A100$1.79on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, PCIePricing page
A100$2.15on-demand Instant Cluster (A100 SXM); page lists $2.15/hr without restating the unitPricing page
RTX PRO 6000$2.49on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
H100 PCIe$2.89on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
H100 NVL$3.19on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
H100 SXM$3.99on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
H200$5.29on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
H200$6.35on-demand Instant Cluster (H200 SXM); page lists $6.35/hr without restating the unitPricing page
B200$7.99on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page
B300$8.99on-demand Pod, Secure Cloud, billed per secondPricing page

Where we recommend them

Worth knowing before you sign

  • In the Participation tier of ClusterMAX 3.0, down from Bronze in 2.0.
  • Community Cloud Pods run on third-party hosts (cheaper, e.g. H100 SXM $2.69 per GPU-hour); serverless costs more than Pods (H100 $5.39 per hour).
  • Reserved Clusters (3 months+) and some cluster SKUs are contact sales; MI300X is in the docs but had no price on the pricing page.

Go to Runpod's site

Sources

  1. Runpod pricing
  2. Runpod Instant Clusters
  3. Runpod compliance
  4. Runpod GPU types (docs)
  5. Runpod: $100M raise
  6. SiliconANGLE: Runpod funding
  7. SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX 3.0 ratings

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