Yes. RunPod has a Community Cloud plan at $0/month.

How much does RunPod cost for 200 GPU hours?

At 200 GPU hours per month, the cheapest option is Community Cloud at about $398/month before taxes and add-ons.

How is RunPod billed?

H100 PCIe from ~$1.99/hr community cloud. Storage billed per GB-month.

What are the best RunPod alternatives?

Popular alternatives are Modal, Replicate, CoreWeave. Compare their plans side by side on this page.

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RunPod pricing, plans & costs

Q: How much does RunPod cost?

RunPod has 3 plans: Community Cloud ($0/mo, then $1.99 per GPU hour); Secure Cloud ($0/mo, then $2.39 per GPU hour); Serverless ($0/mo, then $4.18 per GPU hour).

RunPod — low-cost GPU cloud pods and serverless endpoints.

Starts at: Free
Free plan: Yes
Plans: 3
Billed by: GPU hours

Plans at a glance

RunPod plans and prices

Estimated from public pricing

Cost calculator

RunPod cost calculator

Monthly GPU hours

200

Community Cloud estimate

$398/mo

$0/mo, then $1.99 per GPU hour

Estimate covers the main usage meter only; taxes and add-ons are excluded.

RunPod plans at 200

vs alternatives (cheapest plan)

RunPod$398
Modal$760
Replicate$1,098
CoreWeave$1,232

How much does RunPod cost per month?


20	$40	$48	$84
100	$199	$239	$418
200	$398	$478	$836
1,000	$1,990	$2,390	$4,180
4,000	$7,960	$9,560	$16,720

Community Cloud: $40
Secure Cloud: $48
Serverless: $84

100

Community Cloud: $199
Secure Cloud: $239
Serverless: $418

200

Community Cloud: $398
Secure Cloud: $478
Serverless: $836

1,000

Community Cloud: $1,990
Secure Cloud: $2,390
Serverless: $4,180

4,000

Community Cloud: $7,960
Secure Cloud: $9,560
Serverless: $16,720

Cheapest plan per volume highlighted. "—" means the plan does not allow that volume.

RunPod plan feature comparison


Bandwidth / egress	Free ingress/egress	Free	Free
Builds & deploys	N/A	N/A	N/A
Compute	Per-hour GPU	Per-hour GPU	Per-second
Regions	Global	Global	Global
Storage	$0.10/GB-month	$0.07/GB-month	Network volumes
Support	Community	Email	Email
Team members	Teams	Teams	Teams
Uptime SLA	Not included	99.99%	Not included

Bandwidth / egress

Community Cloud: Free ingress/egress
Secure Cloud: Free
Serverless: Free

Builds & deploys

Community Cloud: N/A
Secure Cloud: N/A
Serverless: N/A

Compute

Community Cloud: Per-hour GPU
Secure Cloud: Per-hour GPU
Serverless: Per-second

Regions

Community Cloud: Global
Secure Cloud: Global
Serverless: Global

Storage

Community Cloud: $0.10/GB-month
Secure Cloud: $0.07/GB-month
Serverless: Network volumes

Support

Community Cloud: Community
Secure Cloud: Email
Serverless: Email

Team members

Community Cloud: Teams
Secure Cloud: Teams
Serverless: Teams

Uptime SLA

Community Cloud: Not included
Secure Cloud: 99.99%
Serverless: Not included

How RunPod pricing works

RunPod rents GPUs per hour (community and secure cloud) and serverless workers per second.

H100 PCIe from ~$1.99/hr community cloud.
Storage billed per GB-month.

RunPod is best for

Cheap GPU hours

Training

Serverless inference

RunPod alternatives

Modal

$760/mo at 200

Python-native · Scale to zero · Fast cold starts

RunPod vs Modal

Replicate

$1,098/mo at 200

Model marketplace · Pay per second · One-line deploys

RunPod vs Replicate

CoreWeave

$1,232/mo at 200

H100 clusters · Kubernetes-native · Enterprise AI

RunPod vs CoreWeave

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Source: official RunPod pricing page. Estimated. Prices change — confirm before buying.