Akash vs RunPod Secure Cloud
9 GPUs in common. Akash is cheaper on 8, RunPod Secure Cloud on 1; on average RunPod Secure Cloud is 77% above Akash.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Akash | RunPod Secure Cloud | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B300 | $6.00 | $7.89 | Akash −24% | $7.85 |
| NVIDIA B200 | $5.00 | $6.79 | Akash −26% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.45 | $4.59 | Akash −3% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $2.71 | $3.49 | Akash −22% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.71 | $1.59 | RunPod Secure Cloud −7% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.68 | $0.99 | Akash −31% | $0.69 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.39 | $0.74 | Akash −47% | $0.60 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4080 | $0.15 | $0.50 | Akash −70% | $0.31 |
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | $0.15 | $0.50 | Akash −70% | $0.25 |
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Questions
Is Akash or RunPod Secure Cloud cheaper?
On the 9 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Akash is cheaper on 8 and RunPod Secure Cloud on 1. On average RunPod Secure Cloud is 77% more expensive than Akash across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
Akash alone prices V100 16GB, T4; RunPod Secure Cloud alone prices H200 NVL, H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, MI300X, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, L40S, RTX 6000 Ada, L40, RTX 5080, RTX A6000, L4, A40, RTX A5000, RTX A4000. They are different kinds of provider — Akash is a marketplace, RunPod Secure Cloud a neocloud — which is most of why the prices differ.
Where do these prices come from?
Akash: Public pricing page, parsed. Per-GPU price is the listed per-GPU rate, or the node price divided by GPU count. Prices near reserved, committed or contract terms are discarded; anything outside a plausible range for the GPU is discarded. RunPod Secure Cloud: Public GPU-type listing. Secure Cloud is RunPod's own datacentre capacity, quoted per GPU-hour. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.