Akash vs RunPod Community Cloud
10 GPUs in common. Akash is cheaper on 5, RunPod Community Cloud on 5; on average RunPod Community Cloud is 6% above Akash.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Akash | RunPod Community Cloud | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B300 | $6.00 | $6.94 | Akash −14% | $7.85 |
| NVIDIA B200 | $5.00 | $5.98 | Akash −16% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.45 | $3.59 | RunPod Community Cloud −19% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $2.71 | $2.69 | RunPod Community Cloud −1% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.71 | $1.29 | RunPod Community Cloud −25% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.68 | $0.69 | Akash −1% | $0.69 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.39 | $0.34 | RunPod Community Cloud −13% | $0.60 |
| NVIDIA V100 16GB | $0.36 | $0.21 | RunPod Community Cloud −42% | $0.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4080 | $0.15 | $0.27 | Akash −44% | $0.31 |
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | $0.15 | $0.22 | Akash −32% | $0.25 |
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Questions
Is Akash or RunPod Community Cloud cheaper?
On the 10 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Akash is cheaper on 5 and RunPod Community Cloud on 5. On average RunPod Community Cloud is 6% 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 T4; RunPod Community Cloud alone prices H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, A100 40GB, L40S, RTX 6000 Ada, L40, H200 NVL, MI300X, L4, RTX 5080, A40, RTX A6000, RTX A4000, RTX A5000.
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 Community Cloud: Third-party hosts renting through RunPod. Quoted per GPU-hour; a listing may have no hosts behind it. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.