RunPod H100 pricing

Per-second billing across a vetted Secure Cloud tier and a cheaper Community Cloud. The split lets you trade price against reliability explicitly rather than guessing.

List prices checked

By RunPod · GPU cloud

Rate card

What RunPod charges, by billing axis.

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Source: RunPod pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

RunPod H100 billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$1,453/mo

  • 730 GPU-hours at $1.99/hr (H100 80GB)$1,453

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$2,905/mo

  • 1,460 GPU-hours at $1.99/hr (H100 80GB)$2,905

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$1,453/mo

  • 730 GPU-hours at $1.99/hr (H100 80GB)$1,453

RunPod H100 vs the alternatives

The closest GPU cloud providers on price, with the difference on gpu cloud's headline axis.

ServiceEntry planvs RunPod H100Compare
Hyperstack H100$1.901× cheaperHead to head
Together AI H100$1.751.1× cheaperHead to head
Paperspace H100$2.241.1× dearerHead to head
CoreWeave H100$2.311.2× dearerHead to head
Vast.ai H100$1.651.2× cheaperHead to head
Lambda H100$2.491.3× dearerHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does RunPod H100 cost in 2026?
RunPod H100 charges usage-based rates with no fixed monthly floor, per RunPod's published pricing page. There is no free tier. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does RunPod H100 have a free tier?
No. RunPod H100 bills from the first unit of usage. Several competitors in the same category do publish a free allowance — the rankings linked below list them.
Are these RunPod H100 prices current?
They were checked against RunPod's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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