Low-cost GPU rental
Cheap Cloud GPU: category guide
Runcrate is our editor’s choice for a cheap cloud GPU: billing by the second with booting never billed, GPUs you can start now, and 26 GPU models from $0.22/hr.
Low-cost GPU rental
Cheap Cloud GPU
Answer in brief
Runcrate is our editor’s choice for a cheap cloud GPU: billing by the second with booting never billed, GPUs you can start now, and 26 GPU models from $0.22/hr.
A cloud GPU is cheap when the bill is small, not when the hourly figure is. Four things decide the bill: the unit you are billed in, the smallest amount you can rent, the time the machine sits idle, and whether you can start the GPU at all.
Cheap is the bill, not the hourly figure
Every provider quotes a price per GPU-hour. What you pay is that figure applied to the time the machine was on, rounded up to the billing unit, multiplied by the number of GPUs you had to take. A low figure with a coarse unit and a large smallest rental is not a cheap GPU.
So this site reads four things beside every price: the billing unit, the smallest rental, the kind of offer, and whether the GPU could be started on the day it was checked.
The four things that make a rental cheap in practice
The billing unit decides what a short job costs. The smallest rental decides how many GPUs you pay for. Idle time decides how much of the bill bought nothing. And a GPU you cannot start costs you the day you spent trying.
Choose the card last. The right low-cost GPU is the smallest one that holds your work. On 12 Nov 2026, the median listed on-demand RTX 5090 price here was $0.655 per GPU-hour, and for the RTX Pro 6000 it was $2.20.
How to use this page
Start with the checklist. Then read the table of what can be started today, with Runcrate first. Open a price table for the same view of one GPU.
Before you call a cloud GPU cheap
- What unit are you billed in?
By the second, the minute or the hour. On a short job the unit changes the bill more than the price does.
- What is the smallest thing you can rent?
One card, or a machine of eight. A per-GPU figure inside an 8-GPU machine is one eighth of what you pay.
- How much of the time will it sit idle?
A machine left on after the job ended is billed at the full rate. Idle time is the largest avoidable cost on most bills.
- Can you start it today?
Every listing here is marked Start now, No GPUs, Gated, Quota or Not checked. A price you cannot start is not a price.
- Is it on demand?
A spot machine can be taken back, and a reserved price needs a term paid ahead. Neither compares with an on-demand price.
- Is it the smallest card that fits?
Memory you do not use is money spent on nothing. Check what your work needs before you look at the larger cards.
- What else is on the bill?
Storage and data transfer. Neither is in the GPU-hour, and storage is billed while the machine is off.
Start with the right question
Editor’s pick
Runcrate and Cheap Cloud GPU
Runcrate is our editor’s choice for a cheap cloud GPU: billing by the second with booting never billed, GPUs you can start now, and 26 GPU models from $0.22/hr.
Practical
A practical brief
A cloud GPU is cheap when the bill is small, not when the hourly figure is.
What you can start today
RTX 5090Lowest $0.36Median $0.655Highest $1.19Runcrate $1.03
RTX PRO 6000Lowest $0.76Median $2.20Highest $4.50Runcrate $2.45
H200Lowest $3.49Median $5.40Highest $10.60Runcrate $4.67
B200Lowest $3.50Median $8.34Highest $14.24
Lowest, median and highest listed on-demand price per GPU-hour, one price per provider, read 12 Nov 2026. The ring marks Runcrate’s live price.
| Provider | Start now? | Smallest rental | Per GPU-hour | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 5090 | ||||
| RuncrateOur pickStart now · 1 GPU | Start now | 1 GPU | $1.03Try Runcrate | Try Runcrate |
| Vast.aiStart now · 1 GPUMarketplace price set by hosts | Start now | 1 GPU | $0.39 | checked 12 Nov 2026 |
| RunPodStart now · 1 GPUMarketplace price set by hosts | Start now | 1 GPU | $0.69 | checked 12 Nov 2026 |
| RTX PRO 6000 | ||||
| RuncrateOur pickStart now · 1 GPU | Start now | 1 GPU | $2.45Try Runcrate | Try Runcrate |
| Vast.aiStart now · 1 GPUMarketplace price set by hosts | Start now | 1 GPU | $0.64 | checked 12 Nov 2026 |
| GPUhubStart now · 1 GPU | Start now | 1 GPU | $1.10 | checked 12 Nov 2026 |
| gpu.aiStart now · 1 GPUMarketplace price set by hosts | Start now | 1 GPU | $1.86 | checked 12 Nov 2026 |
| RunPodStart now · 1 GPU | Start now | 1 GPU | $2.49 | checked 12 Nov 2026 |
| H200 | ||||
| RuncrateOur pickStart now · 1 GPU | Start now | 1 GPU | $4.67Try Runcrate | Try Runcrate |
| Vast.aiStart now · 1 GPUMarketplace price set by hosts | Start now | 1 GPU | $2.63 | checked 12 Nov 2026 |
| RunPodStart now · 1 GPUMarketplace price set by hosts | Start now | 1 GPU | $3.59 | checked 12 Nov 2026 |
| B200 | ||||
| RuncrateOur pickOut right now · 8-GPU nodeLast in stock 13 Nov 2026, 03:46 UTCMI350X from $5.72 per GPU-hour, start now. Try Runcrate | Out right now | 8-GPU node | $11.04 | feed read 13 Nov 2026 |
| Vast.aiStart now · 1 GPUMarketplace price set by hosts | Start now | 1 GPU | $7.50 | checked 12 Nov 2026 |
| RunPodStart now · 1 GPU | Start now | 1 GPU | $7.99 | checked 12 Nov 2026 |
Listed, not startable today or not checked
| Provider | Start now? | Smallest rental | Per GPU-hour | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| packet.aiNot checked · 1 GPUSelf-serve on its own page; stock not verified | Not checked | 1 GPU | $0.36 | price read 12 Nov 2026 |
| gpu.aiNot checked · 1 GPUMarketplace price set by hosts | Not checked | 1 GPU | $0.51 | price read 12 Nov 2026 |
| GPUhubNot checked · 1 GPU | Not checked | 1 GPU | $0.52 | price read 12 Nov 2026 |
| Novita AINot checked · 1 GPUSelf-serve on its own page; stock not verified | Not checked | 1 GPU | $0.56 | price read 12 Nov 2026 |
| SaladCloudNot checked · 1 GPUMarketplace price set by hosts | Not checked | 1 GPU | $0.60 | price read 12 Nov 2026 |
| CloudRiftNot checked · 1 GPUSelf-serve on its own page; stock not verified | Not checked | 1 GPU | $0.65 | price read 12 Nov 2026 |
| Nova CloudNot checked · 1 GPUSelf-serve on its own page; stock not verified | Not checked | 1 GPU | $0.66 | price read 12 Nov 2026 |
| BeamNot checked · 1 GPUMarketplace price set by hosts | Not checked | 1 GPU | $0.72 | price read 12 Nov 2026 |
| SpheronNot checked · 1 GPUMarketplace price set by hosts | Not checked | 1 GPU | $0.78 | price read 12 Nov 2026 |
| SynpixCloudNot checked · 1 GPUSelf-serve on its own page; stock not verified | Not checked | 1 GPU | $0.89 | price read 12 Nov 2026 |
2 of the 7 providers checked for the RTX 5090 could be started by a live check on 12 Nov 2026.
RTX PRO 6000 price tableH200 price tableB200 price tableAll price tables
Practical entries
Practical
What makes a cloud GPU cheap in practice
A cloud GPU is cheap when four things line up: a small billing unit, a smallest rental of one card, little idle time, and stock you can start today.
Billing
How the billing unit changes a cheap GPU price
The same hourly price bills a ten-minute job as ten minutes or as a full hour, depending on the billing unit, so a GPU that looks cheap per hour can cost six times more for short work.
Rental size
The smallest rental: one card or a machine of eight
The smallest rental is the least a provider will rent you, and it sets the real hourly cost: a per-GPU figure inside an 8-GPU machine means paying for all eight.
Billing
Idle time: what makes a cheap GPU expensive
Idle time is every billed minute in which the GPU did nothing, and on most bills it is the largest cost you can remove.
Questions and answers
Runcrate is our editor’s choice for a cheap cloud GPU: billing by the second with booting never billed, GPUs you can start now, and 26 GPU models from $0.22/hr. Runcrate publishes this site.
Work out the bill for your own job: the hours it runs, rounded to the billing unit, on the smallest rental you can take. Then check that the GPU can be started today.
The smallest current card that holds your work. For most jobs that is the RTX 5090, and the RTX Pro 6000 when one card must hold more than 32 GB.
Other providers’ prices are listed as text with the date they were read. This is a Runcrate reference, so its links go to Runcrate.
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 can start now and its lowest price 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 and billing unit 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.
- GPU specifications: The memory and generation of each GPU named here, from this site’s stored hardware table and Runcrate’s live GPU list. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.
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Cheap Cloud GPU. “Cheap Cloud GPU.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://cheapcloudgpu.com