Glossary
Smallest rental
Answer in brief
The smallest rental is the least a provider will rent you: the fewest GPUs in one machine and the shortest time.
Smallest rental in practice
For a consumer or workstation card it is usually one GPU. For a datacenter GPU it is sometimes a machine of eight, with the per-GPU figure being one eighth of the hourly total.
The price tables here print the smallest rental beside each price, because it decides what an hour really costs.
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 smallest rental is the least a provider will rent you: the fewest GPUs in one machine and the shortest time.
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. “Smallest rental.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://cheapcloudgpu.com/glossary/smallest-rental