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Glossary

Billing unit

Answer in brief

The billing unit is the step in which rented time is rounded up before the hourly price is applied: the second, the minute or the hour.

Billing unit in practice

On short and uneven work the unit can change the bill more than the price does. Ten minutes billed by the hour cost six times ten minutes billed by the second.

The unit is on the pricing page or in the billing documentation. If it is on neither, treat the price as hourly until a bill shows otherwise.

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.

The billing unit is the step in which rented time is rounded up before the hourly price is applied: the second, the minute or the hour.

Sources for this entry

  1. Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the range of GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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. “Billing unit.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://cheapcloudgpu.com/glossary/billing-unit