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Provider record · updated 2026-09-10

RunPod — GPU pricing & deliverability

6 tracked offerings · grade mix A:0 · B:0 · C:2 · D:2 · U:2. Pricing page publishes flat per-GPU-hour prices and 'Thousands of GPUs across 30+ regions' but NO interconnect details (no NVLink/InfiniBand mention) for Pods or Instant Clusters. Only cluster-scale fact published: Instant Clusters 'scale up to 64 GPUs' with shared storage. No AMD MI300X/MI325X/Instinct GPUs listed on the pricing page. Node sizes per SKU not published.

Tracked offerings

GPUSKU$/GPU-hrTermsGradeConfFabric (as published)Src
RTX4090RTX 4090 Pod (Secure Cloud)$0.74on-demandDpublnot publishedvendor
A100-SXMA100 SXM Pod (Secure Cloud)$1.59on-demandCpublnot publishedvendor
H100-PCIeH100 PCIe Pod (Secure Cloud)$2.89on-demandDpublnot publishedvendor
H100-SXMH100 SXM Pod (Secure Cloud)$3.49on-demandCpublnot publishedvendor
H200H200 Pod (Secure Cloud)$4.59on-demandUpublnot publishedvendor
B200B200 Pod (Secure Cloud)
US-CA-2, US-DE-1, US-GA-1 +15 more
$6.79on-demandUpublnot publishedvendor

Grades measure what sellers publish — deliverability of the written claim, not measured performance. No fleet holds a measured (Verified) badge yet; that tier arrives with the verification harness. Source classes: API = provider's live pricing API · vendor = provider's published page · mkt API = marketplace API · 3rd-party = aggregator (provider publishes no price on its own pages) · quote = quote-gated or "starting at", not a walk-up price. Quote-class prices are shown in tables but excluded from headline ranges, spreads, and fair-price bands.

Terms & trust (as published, 2026-09-14)

Uptime SLANo public SLA for self-serve tiers; '99.99% uptime SLA' appears only as enterprise-agreement marketing copy. ToS: 'Runpod does not make any specific uptime warranties with respect to the Community Cloud Offerings.'
SLA remedynone stated publicly — ToS: 'all Fees for the Service are non-refundable' except as set forth in the Terms; no service-credit schedule published; enterprise SLA remedies are contractual and unpublished
Capacity guaranteeEnterprise/sales-led only: 'Reserved Clusters: Dedicated GPU clusters with guaranteed availability, custom configurations, SLA-backed uptime'; 'Guaranteed capacity sized against your forecast, priced for commitment'. Self-serve Savings Plans (3/6 months prepaid) cover GPU compute costs only, no capacity guarantee wording.
Egress feesFree — docs state Pods have 'no fees for data ingress or egress'
Billing granularityper-second — Pods 'billed by the second for compute and storage' (network volumes billed hourly); no minimum stated
Self-serve signuppartial — Pods/Serverless fully self-serve from console; reserved capacity and Reserved Clusters require sales ('Speak with our team to reserve')
Security certificationsISO/IEC 27001:2022 (cert RUN-ISMS-20260827, valid 2026-08-27 to 2029-08-26); SOC 2 Type II (Sensiba LLP); SOC 3; 'maintains HIPAA and GDPR programs'. Secure Cloud runs on 'vetted infrastructure partners who meet enterprise security standards including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS' — partner-DC claims apply to Secure Cloud, not Community Cloud.

Notes: No measurement definition (VM vs API vs network) published anywhere for the 99.99% enterprise figure. Compliance page caveat: 'Compliance coverage can vary by workload, region, provider, and deployment model.' Secure Cloud vs Community Cloud priced differently (e.g., H100 PCIe $2.89/hr vs $1.99/hr); Community Cloud is peer-hosted with explicit no-uptime-warranty language.

Sources: · Fields marked "not published" are exactly that — the seller does not state them anywhere we could find. Absence is a finding.

Reliability record (public status feed, last 90 days)

24 incidents on RunPod's own status page in the trailing 90 days, collected 2026-09-15. Self-reported by the provider — a floor on true incident count, not a ceiling; it still beats the war-story thread you were going to read instead. High counts often reflect granular per-rack reporting, not worse infrastructure: read the incidents, not just the number.

DateIncidentImpactDuration
2026-09-13EUR-IS-1 Network Issue
2026-09-09CA-MTL-4 Network Issue
2026-09-08Planned PDU maintenance: US-WA-1 & US-WA-2
2026-09-06SSH Proxy and Serverless are experiencing elevated error rates
2026-09-01US-NC-2 Networking is Degraded
2026-08-19EUR-NO-2 Network Issue
2026-08-19EU-CZ-1 Network Issue
2026-08-17EUR-IS-1 Network Issue
2026-08-15US-IL-1 DC is Unavailable
2026-08-14EUR-IS-1 Network Issue
2026-08-06EUR-NO-1 Network Storage Issue
2026-07-24Planned Network Switch Firmware Upgrade (EUR-NO-2)

What RunPod does not publish

Unpublished fields are recorded as unknown and grade conservatively. Sellers improve their grades by disclosing — that is the point.

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