Amazon Web Services vs RunPod Secure Cloud
6 GPUs in common. Amazon Web Services is cheaper on 0, RunPod Secure Cloud on 6; on average RunPod Secure Cloud is 56% below Amazon Web Services.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Amazon Web Services | RunPod Secure Cloud | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $14.24 | $6.79 | RunPod Secure Cloud −52% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $7.91 | $4.59 | RunPod Secure Cloud −42% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $6.88 | $3.49 | RunPod Secure Cloud −49% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $3.43 | $1.59 | RunPod Secure Cloud −54% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $3.39 | $1.09 | RunPod Secure Cloud −68% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA L4 | $1.60 | $0.49 | RunPod Secure Cloud −69% | $0.80 |
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Questions
Is Amazon Web Services or RunPod Secure Cloud cheaper?
On the 6 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Amazon Web Services is cheaper on 0 and RunPod Secure Cloud on 6. On average RunPod Secure Cloud is 56% cheaper than Amazon Web Services across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
Amazon Web Services alone prices V100 32GB, V100 16GB, A100 40GB, A10G, T4; RunPod Secure Cloud alone prices B300, H200 NVL, H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, MI300X, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, RTX 5090, RTX 6000 Ada, L40, RTX 4090, RTX 5080, RTX A6000, RTX 4080, RTX 3090, A40, RTX A5000, RTX A4000. They are different kinds of provider — Amazon Web Services is a hyperscaler, RunPod Secure Cloud a neocloud — which is most of why the prices differ.
Where do these prices come from?
Amazon Web Services: Public on-demand price list for Linux, us-east-1. Instance price divided by GPU count. 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.