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Low-cost GPU rentalEdition of 12 Nov 2026
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Glossary

GPU-hour

Answer in brief

A GPU-hour is one GPU rented for one hour, the unit in which rental prices are compared.

GPU-hour in practice

A price per GPU-hour is a rate. The bill is the rate applied to the time the machine was on, rounded up to the billing unit, and multiplied by the number of GPUs in the machine.

Reading prices per GPU-hour lets a single card and an 8-GPU machine sit in one column. It does not tell you which of the two you would have to rent.

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.

A GPU-hour is one GPU rented for one hour, the unit in which rental prices are compared.

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. “GPU-hour.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://cheapcloudgpu.com/glossary/gpu-hour