Operator · Moorestown, NJ · founded 2022
Runpod
Runpod provides cloud GPU compute for AI workloads with simple pricing and global availability.
GPU types41with a current offer
Current offers268272 readings on file · last 45 days
H100 from$2.69per GPU-hour, on-demand
Entry price$0.13cheapest GPU-hour listed
Countries1128 named regions
Trust Score v0.195/100
- Company & track record73
- Infrastructure control100
- Pricing & billing transparency100
- Reliability signals100
- Security & compliance100
- Customer signal—
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Each point comes from something the provider publishes, with the page it was read on and the date. Anything not disclosed earns zero.
Company & track record
weight 15%
73 / 100
| Founding year published | 2022runpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Headquarters published | Runpod Inc.runpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Legal entity named | Runpod Inc.runpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Funding or ownership disclosed | not disclosedrunpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
Infrastructure control
weight 15%
100 / 100
| Capacity model published | operates or rents dedicated capacityrunpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 10 / 10 |
| Regions published | 28 regions or countriesrunpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
Pricing & billing transparency
weight 20%
100 / 100
| Public prices without an account | yes (read on the pricing page)runpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Billing granularity published | per secondrunpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Egress policy published | included (no ingress or egress fees)runpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Stopped-instance billing published | Stopped Pod: GPU/CPU not billed; volume disk billed at 0.20 USD/GB-month (0.10 while running); container disk not charged; network volumes keep billing. Savings plans only cover GPU compute.runpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Public IPv4 policy published | included on Secure Cloud (Pods always get a public IP); on Community Cloud a public IP is optional and not guaranteed; no IP fee publishedrunpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
Reliability signals
weight 20%
100 / 100
| Status page | https://uptime.runpod.iorunpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 6 / 6 |
| SLA published | 99.99% uptime SLA in enterprise agreements (contractual); home page advertises 99.9% uptime; no uptime warranty for Community Cloud (Terms of Service)runpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 6 / 6 |
| SLA with a numeric uptime commitment | 99.99% uptime SLA in enterprise agreements (contractual); home page advertises 99.9% uptime; no uptime warranty for Community Cloud (Terms of Service)runpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Uptime history published | Status page shows 100% 90-day uptime per component on 2026-09-29runpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Observed availability (30 days) | not measured yet | — |
Security & compliance
weight 15%
100 / 100
| SOC 2 | Type IIrunpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 8 / 8 |
| ISO 27001 | ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified by Sensiba LLP, certificate RUN-ISMS-20260827 valid 2026-08-27 to 2029-08-26runpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| HIPAA or GDPR DPA | HIPAA program; BAAs on requestrunpod.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
Customer signal
weight 15%
not measured
| Aggregated public reviews | not collected yet | — |
provisional v0.1: evidence from the provider's own pages; dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominatorFull method →
Market report · Oct 25, 2026 · Specialised GPU clouds, hourly rental, pods and inference · #36 of the 200 to audit · prices read on the provider's pageWhat the market report notes about Runpod
Our internal report lists 248 actors with their zone, segment, status and the prices it could read, dated Oct 25, 2026. Its notes are reproduced as written, in French, with their sources.
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- Runpod
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- Page tarifaire mise à jour le 08/10/2026 ; RTX 5090 0,69 $ Community / 1,19 $ Secure ; H100 PCIe 2,89/1,99 $, SXM 3,99/2,69 $ ; H200 ≈ 4,39 $ ; B200 7,99 $ ; B300 8,99 $ ; L40S 0,99 $ ; RTX 4090 0,34/0,74 $.
Prices by GPU · 39 GPU types with a current offerWhat Runpod charges, against the market
Cheapest current on-demand true cost here, next to the market median for the same GPU. Negative means cheaper than the market.
| GPU | Cheapest here | Market median | vs market | Current offers | Modes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H100 | $1.99 | $3.17 | −37% | 4 | on-demand | H100 prices |
| A100 80GB | $1.19 | $1.99 | −40% | 4 | on-demand | A100 80GB prices |
| RTX PRO 6000 | $0.69 | $2.14 | −68% | 7 | on-demand | RTX PRO 6000 prices |
| H200 | $3.59 | $4.76 | −25% | 2 | on-demand | H200 prices |
| L40S | $0.79 | $1.26 | −37% | 2 | on-demand | L40S prices |
| B200 | $5.98 | $7.50 | −20% | 2 | on-demand | B200 prices |
| B300 | $6.94 | $8.96 | −23% | 2 | on-demand | B300 prices |
| L4 | $0.59 | $0.80 | −26% | 1 | on-demand | L4 prices |
| RTX A6000 | $0.33 | $0.54 | −39% | 2 | on-demand | RTX A6000 prices |
| RTX 5090 | $0.69 | $0.69 | −0% | 2 | on-demand | RTX 5090 prices |
| RTX 4090 | $0.34 | $0.44 | −23% | 2 | on-demand | RTX 4090 prices |
| A100 40GB | $1.00 | $1.98 | −49% | 1 | on-demand | A100 40GB prices |
| RTX 6000 Ada | $0.74 | $0.79 | −6% | 2 | on-demand | RTX 6000 Ada prices |
| L40 | $0.69 | $0.89 | −22% | 2 | on-demand | L40 prices |
| Tesla V100 16GB | $0.19 | $1.71 | −89% | 2 | on-demand | Tesla V100 16GB prices |
| RTX 3090 | $0.22 | $0.19 | +16% | 2 | on-demand | RTX 3090 prices |
| MI300X | $2.39 | $2.71 | −12% | 1 | on-demand | MI300X prices |
| H100 NVL | $2.59 | $3.94 | −34% | 2 | on-demand | H100 NVL prices |
| H200 NVL | $3.79 | $3.99 | −5% | 1 | on-demand | H200 NVL prices |
| RTX A5000 | $0.16 | $0.27 | −40% | 2 | on-demand | RTX A5000 prices |
| RTX A4000 | $0.17 | $0.19 | −8% | 2 | on-demand | RTX A4000 prices |
| RTX 4000 Ada | $0.20 | $0.27 | −25% | 2 | on-demand | RTX 4000 Ada prices |
| RTX 5080 | $0.39 | $0.27 | +45% | 1 | on-demand | RTX 5080 prices |
| A40 | $0.59 | $0.85 | −30% | 1 | on-demand | A40 prices |
| RTX PRO 5000 | $0.82 | $0.93 | −12% | 2 | on-demand | RTX PRO 5000 prices |
| RTX 3080 | $0.17 | $0.13 | +36% | 1 | on-demand | RTX 3080 prices |
| RTX 4080 | $0.27 | $0.25 | +8% | 1 | on-demand | RTX 4080 prices |
| RTX 3070 | $0.13 | $0.08 | +65% | 1 | on-demand | RTX 3070 prices |
| RTX 4080 Super | $0.28 | $0.23 | +20% | 1 | on-demand | RTX 4080 Super prices |
| RTX 3080 Ti | $0.18 | $0.10 | +72% | 1 | on-demand | RTX 3080 Ti prices |
| RTX 4070 Ti | $0.19 | $0.15 | +27% | 1 | on-demand | RTX 4070 Ti prices |
| RTX 3090 Ti | $0.27 | $0.20 | +33% | 1 | on-demand | RTX 3090 Ti prices |
| RTX PRO 4000 | $0.57 | $0.27 | +112% | 1 | on-demand | RTX PRO 4000 prices |
| RTX PRO 4500 | $0.72 | $0.72 | −0% | 2 | on-demand | RTX PRO 4500 prices |
| RTX A2000 | $0.12 | $0.05 | +128% | 1 | on-demand | RTX A2000 prices |
| RTX 5000 Ada | $0.49 | $1.36 | −64% | 1 | on-demand | RTX 5000 Ada prices |
| RTX 2000 Ada | $0.24 | — | — | 1 | on-demand | RTX 2000 Ada prices |
| RTX 4000 SFF Ada | $0.18 | — | — | 1 | on-demand | RTX 4000 SFF Ada prices |
| RTX A4500 | $0.19 | — | — | 2 | on-demand | RTX A4500 prices |
All offers · 272 readings on fileEvery Runpod offer, with its receipt
Current offers (last 45 days) ranked by true cost, all rental modes, each with its read date. Older readings stay listed below, in grey.
| GPU | Configuration | Mode | Region | Stock | List | True cost | Read | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX A2000 | 1× RTX A2000 | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.12 | $0.12 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3070 | 1× RTX 3070 | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | In stock | $0.13 | $0.13 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A5000 | 1× RTX A5000 | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.16 | $0.16 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3080 | 1× RTX 3080 | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.17 | $0.17 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A4000 | 1× RTX A4000 | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.17 | $0.17 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3080 Ti | 1× RTX 3080 Ti | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.18 | $0.18 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4000 SFF Ada | 1× RTX 4000 SFF Ada | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.18 | $0.18 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4070 Ti | 1× RTX 4070 Ti | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.19 | $0.19 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A4500 | 1× RTX A4500 | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.19 | $0.19 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 16GBPCIE | 1× Tesla V100 16GB PCIE | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.19 | $0.19 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4000 Ada | 1× RTX 4000 Ada | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Stock unknown | $0.20 | $0.20 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090 | 1× RTX 3090 | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.22 | $0.22 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 16GB | 1× Tesla V100 16GB | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.23 | $0.23 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 2000 Ada | 1× RTX 2000 Ada | On-demand | Runpod Secure Cloud datacenters | Unavailable | $0.24 | $0.24 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A4000 | 1× RTX A4000 | On-demand | Runpod Secure Cloud datacenters | Unavailable | $0.25 | $0.25 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A4500 | 1× RTX A4500 | On-demand | Runpod Secure Cloud datacenters | Unavailable | $0.25 | $0.25 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090 Ti | 1× RTX 3090 Ti | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.27 | $0.27 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4080 | 1× RTX 4080 | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.27 | $0.27 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A5000 | 1× RTX A5000 | On-demand | Runpod Secure Cloud datacenters | Unavailable | $0.27 | $0.27 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4080 Super | 1× RTX 4080 Super | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.28 | $0.28 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4000 Ada | 1× RTX 4000 Ada | On-demand | 1 datacenter(s): EU-RO-1 (low) | In stock | $0.28 | $0.28 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A6000 | 1× RTX A6000 | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.33 | $0.33 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4090 | 1× RTX 4090 | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.34 | $0.34 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5080 | 1× RTX 5080 | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.39 | $0.39 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5000 Ada | 1× RTX 5000 Ada | On-demand | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | Unavailable | $0.49 | $0.49 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
69 fresh offers · the 25 cheapest shown here, all of them in the comparison tool · prices per GPU-hour · true cost includes the add-ons the provider publishesOpen in the comparison tool →
True cost & billing · read Sep 29, 2026What the hourly price does not say
Billing granularity, minimums, what a stopped machine costs, traffic, addresses, deposits and identity checks, as published by the provider.
Billing
- Billing granularity
- per second
- Minimum charge
- No per-launch minimum published; deploying an on-demand Pod requires at least one hour's worth of credits for the chosen configuration. Default spend limit 80 USD/hour across all resources.
- Stopped instance
- Stopped Pod: GPU/CPU not billed; volume disk billed at 0.20 USD/GB-month (0.10 while running); container disk not charged; network volumes keep billing. Savings plans only cover GPU compute.
- Egress
- included (no ingress or egress fees)
- Public IPv4
- included on Secure Cloud (Pods always get a public IP); on Community Cloud a public IP is optional and not guaranteed; no IP fee published
- Billing model
- both
- Minimum deposit
- Docs: new users 'can start with as little as $10'; prepaid cards should deposit at least 100 USD per transaction
- Free credits
- $500 on sign-up
Account
- Payment
- card · invoice · crypto (yes: 'accepted via integrated payment processors' (Crypto.com named in the Terms of Service); KYC verification required before the first crypto payment; coin list not published)
- Sign-up
- email, prepaid credits before deploying (card via Stripe, crypto, or invoice above 5,000 USD), KYC verification before first crypto payment
- Identity check
- card verification (Stripe fraud checks); KYC required before first crypto payment
- Support
- support portal, email ([email protected]), phone/WhatsApp for sales (+1 888 478-6012), discord community
- Enterprise support
- not published
- SLA
- 99.99% uptime SLA in enterprise agreements (contractual); home page advertises 99.9% uptime; no uptime warranty for Community Cloud (Terms of Service)
- Status page
- uptime.runpod.io ↗
- Published uptime
- Status page shows 100% 90-day uptime per component on 2026-09-29
Infrastructure
- Regions
28 named regions in 11 countries
EU-RO-1 (Romania) · CA-MTL-1 (Canada) · EU-SE-1 (Sweden) · US-IL-1 (United States) · EUR-IS-1 (Iceland) · EU-CZ-1 (Czech Republic) · US-TX-3 (United States) · EUR-IS-2 (Iceland) · US-KS-2 (United States) · US-GA-2 (United States) · US-WA-1 (United States) · US-TX-1 (United States) · CA-MTL-3 (Canada) · EU-NL-1 (Netherlands) · US-TX-4 (United States) · US-CA-2 (United States) · US-NC-1 (United States) · OC-AU-1 (Australia) · US-DE-1 (United States) · EUR-IS-3 (Iceland) · CA-MTL-2 (Canada) · AP-JP-1 (Japan) · EUR-NO-1 (Norway) · EU-FR-1 (France) · US-KS-3 (United States) · US-GA-1 (United States) · EUR-NO-2 (Norway) · CA-MTL-4 (Canada)- Countries
- Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Iceland, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Sweden, United States
- Platform
- api, cli, serverless, jupyter, ssh, custom_docker_image, persistent_volumes, spot_or_interruptible · SDK : python, javascript, go (Serverless SDKs) · runpod_flash python library · Terraform : official · Kubernetes : — · interconnexion : Instant Clusters: 3200 Gbps between nodes for B200/H200/H100, 1600 Gbps for A100 · clusters : Instant Clusters 2-8 nodes (16-64 GPUs) on demand, larger up to 512 GPUs via sales · Reserved Clusters from 3 months, up to 10,000+ GPUs, SLA-backed
- Storage
- ephemeral · 0.10 USD/GB-month · Container disk, running Pods only; erased when Pod stops; billed per secondvolume · 0.10 USD/GB-month running, 0.20 USD/GB-month stopped · Volume disk, kept until Pod deleted; optional encryption at restnetwork · 0.07 USD/GB-month under 1 TB, 0.05 USD/GB-month over 1 TB · Standard network volume, billed hourly, Secure Cloud only, shared by Pods in the same data centernetwork · 0.14 USD/GB-month · High-performance network storage as listed on the pricing page; docs say exact price varies by data center and is shown in the consoleobject · 0.09 USD/GB-month plus requests (Class A 0.005 USD per 1,000, Class B 0.0005 USD per 1,000) · Global volume (beta), object-backed, region independent
- Migration out
- Workloads are standard Docker containers, so images move as-is. Data on volume disks or network volumes can be exported with Cloud Sync (AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure, Dropbox), the S3-compatible API on network volumes, runpodctl send/receive, or rsync over SSH. Serverless handlers use the runpod SDK and need a replacement queue/endpoint layer elsewhere.
Security & compliance
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified by Sensiba LLP, certificate RUN-ISMS-20260827 valid 2026-08-27 to 2029-08-26
- HIPAA
- HIPAA program; BAAs on request
- GDPR / DPA
- GDPR program; DPAs on request via Trust Center
- Other
- SOC 3 completed; SOC 2 Bridge Letter 2026; Secure Cloud runs in T3/T4 data centers
- Legal entity
- Runpod Inc.
- Funding
- not published
GPUBank market study, read on the provider's own pages · 32 pages read · facts marked "not published" were looked for and not foundPages read ↓
From the study · assessmentRunpod, in short
What stood out when we read the documents: strengths, weaknesses, who it suits, and what we could not find.
Strengths
- Broad self-serve catalogue: 21 Pod GPU configurations priced publicly, 43 GPU models in the GPU types reference including B300, B200, H200 and MI300X
- Per-second billing for compute and storage with no ingress or egress fees
- Two price tiers per GPU: Community Cloud rates 10-56% below Secure Cloud (e.g. RTX 4090 0.34 vs 0.74 USD/h)
- Serverless GPU endpoints with flex workers that scale to zero and FlashBoot cold starts advertised under 200 ms
- Instant multi-node clusters of 16-64 GPUs with 3200 Gbps inter-node networking, self-serve H200 SXM at 4.31 USD/GPU-h
- Official Terraform provider (runpod/runpod v1.0.9), CLI (runpodctl), REST and GraphQL APIs, Python/JS/Go SDKs
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, HIPAA and GDPR programs published
- Crypto accepted alongside cards and invoicing
Weaknesses
- Secure Cloud list prices are above GPUBank on every overlapping model (H100 SXM 3.49 vs 1.85, RTX 4090 0.74 vs 0.23 USD/GPU-h)
- Stopped Pods keep paying for volume disk at double the running rate (0.20 USD/GB-month)
- Pods without a network volume are terminated and data lost when the balance reaches 0 USD
- Crypto payers must pass KYC before the first crypto payment
- Savings-plan, interruptible (spot) and active serverless worker prices are not published
- Network volumes are Secure Cloud only and must be attached at Pod creation
- Community Cloud has no uptime warranty and Runpod no longer accepts new hosts for it
- Default spend limit of 80 USD/hour; larger clusters need a support request
- No UDP, no Docker Compose, no Windows on Pods
Ideal for
- Developers who want many GPU types self-serve with per-second billing
- Teams mixing development Pods with autoscaling serverless inference
- Short multi-node training jobs on instant clusters
- Enterprises needing SOC 2/ISO 27001 documentation and post-paid invoicing
Not published
- Savings plan (3- or 6-month prepaid) prices: only shown in the console
- Interruptible/spot Pod prices: the API supports interruptible Pods but no spot price is published on the pricing page
- Serverless active worker prices: 'discounts available through sales inquiry'
- Cluster prices for L40S, H100 SXM, B200 and all reserved cluster terms: 'Contact sales'
- Instant Cluster rates are shown as '$/hr' without the words 'per GPU'
- per-GPU basis inferred (see row notes)
- MI300X, H200 NVL, V100, RTX 30/40-series consumer cards and other GPU-types entries have no public price on the pricing page
- Community Cloud values for the two MIG slices exist in page data (1.00 and 0.50) but docs say MIG is Secure Cloud only
- Pods overview doc says Pods are 'billed by the minute' while pricing docs and product page say per second
- High-performance storage: pricing page lists 0.14 USD/GB-month, docs say price varies by data center
- Region cities are not published
- countries are derived from the ISO country code in each data center ID
- marketing claims 31 regions while the API enum lists 26 IDs and the status page names 2 more (EUR-NO-2, CA-MTL-4)
- Maximum GPUs per Pod not published in the pages read
- Founding year and funding not published on the pages read
- Free credits: home page says 'Get started for free' but no credit amount is published
- Managed Kubernetes, snapshots, bare metal: not documented in the pages read
- Crypto coins and rails not listed
Observations
Pricing page ('Updated September 27, 2026') shows per-GPU hourly Pod prices without an account, defaulting to the Secure Cloud tab; toggles switch to Community Cloud and to per-second display
Serverless section shows only flex worker rates per GPU pool; active worker pricing is through sales
Clusters: H200 SXM and A100 SXM priced; L40S, H100 SXM, B200 and all Reserved Cluster terms (1, 3, 6, 12, 12+ months) are 'Contact sales'
Pricing page also lists Public Endpoints (per-request and per-token model APIs)
Marketing pages claim 31 global regions and 30+ GPU SKUs
Pages read
- runpod.io/pricing — Pod Secure/Community prices, serverless flex prices, cluster prices, storage prices
- docs.runpod.io/pods/pricing — savings plans, storage pricing, minimum balance, spend limit
- docs.runpod.io/serverless/pricing — flex vs active workers, per-second billing
- docs.runpod.io/accounts-billing/billing — prepaid credits, payment methods, crypto KYC, invoicing threshold, refunds, minimum deposit
- docs.runpod.io/accounts-billing/post-paid-billing — enterprise invoicing
- docs.runpod.io/accounts-billing/manage-payment-cards — Stripe cards, crypto and ACH/wire alternatives
- docs.runpod.io/accounts-billing/manage-accounts — sign-up, team roles, audit logs
- docs.runpod.io/references/gpu-types — catalogue count, GPU pools
- docs.runpod.io/pods/choose-a-pod — Secure vs Community Cloud, MIG availability, Community hosts closed
- docs.runpod.io/pods/overview — templates, SSH/Jupyter, limitations
- docs.runpod.io/pods/storage/types — container/volume/network/global volume prices, encryption
- docs.runpod.io/storage/network-volumes — network volume price, Secure Cloud only, migration
- docs.runpod.io/storage/high-performance-storage — premium tier pricing policy
- docs.runpod.io/storage/globalvolume/overview — request charges, deletion after 15 days at zero balance
- docs.runpod.io/instant-clusters — cluster sizes and interconnect
- docs.runpod.io/api-reference/pods/POST/pods — data center IDs, interruptible Pods, public IP
- docs.runpod.io/api-reference/overview — API v1 deprecation, OpenAPI
- docs.runpod.io/runpodctl/overview — CLI capabilities
- docs.runpod.io/runpodctl/reference/runpodctl-datacenter — data center listing
- docs.runpod.io/serverless/sdks — Python, JavaScript, Go SDKs
- docs.runpod.io/pods/maintenance-and-outages — maintenance not billed, data safety
- docs.runpod.io/references/security-and-compliance — T3/T4 data centers, GDPR
- runpod.io/legal/compliance — ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, HIPAA, GDPR
- runpod.io/enterprise — 99.99% SLA, SSO, post-paid, enterprise support
- runpod.io/product/clusters — reserved clusters terms
- runpod.io/product/cloud-gpus — 31 regions, per-second billing claim
- runpod.io/product/serverless — serverless flex prices (same as pricing page
- runpod.io/ — 99.9% uptime claim, SOC 2 Type II claim, 31 regions
- runpod.io/contact — HQ address, support channels
- runpod.io/legal/terms-of-service — Stripe and Crypto.com as payment providers, Community Cloud no uptime warranty
- uptime.runpod.io — status page, 90-day uptime, extra data center IDs
- registry.terraform.io/providers/runpod/runpod/latest — official Terraform provider v1.0.9
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Questions about Runpod
What GPUs does Runpod offer?
Runpod has 41 GPU types with a fresh offer today, for example H100 from $1.99, A100 80GB from $1.19, H200 from $3.59, RTX PRO 6000 from $0.69, L40S from $0.79, B200 from $5.98 per GPU-hour on-demand. The full list with prices and market medians is on this page.
How does Runpod bill?
Billing granularity: per second. Minimum charge: No per-launch minimum published; deploying an on-demand Pod requires at least one hour's worth of credits for the chosen configuration. Default spend limit 80 USD/hour across all resources. Stopped instance: Stopped Pod: GPU/CPU not billed; volume disk billed at 0.20 USD/GB-month (0.10 while running); container disk not charged; network volumes keep billing. Savings plans only cover GPU compute.
How trustworthy is Runpod?
Its Trust Score is 95/100 (v0.1), read from its own documents. Strong on infrastructure control, pricing & billing transparency, reliability signals, security & compliance. The score measures transparency and published guarantees, not customer satisfaction; every criterion and its source is listed above.
Where are Runpod's data centres?
28 named regions in 11 countries: Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Iceland, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Sweden, United States.
How do you pay Runpod, and are there credits?
Payment by card, invoice, crypto. A sign-up credit of $500 is advertised. Identity check: card verification (Stripe fraud checks); KYC required before first crypto payment.