Amazon Web Services vs RunPod Community Cloud
8 GPUs in common. Amazon Web Services is cheaper on 0, RunPod Community Cloud on 8; on average RunPod Community Cloud is 68% below Amazon Web Services.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Amazon Web Services | RunPod Community Cloud | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $14.24 | $5.98 | RunPod Community Cloud −58% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $7.91 | $3.59 | RunPod Community Cloud −55% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $6.88 | $2.69 | RunPod Community Cloud −61% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $3.43 | $1.29 | RunPod Community Cloud −62% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $3.39 | $0.79 | RunPod Community Cloud −77% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA V100 16GB | $3.06 | $0.21 | RunPod Community Cloud −93% | $0.79 |
| NVIDIA A100 40GB | $2.74 | $1.00 | RunPod Community Cloud −64% | $1.48 |
| NVIDIA L4 | $1.60 | $0.44 | RunPod Community Cloud −73% | $0.80 |
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Questions
Is Amazon Web Services or RunPod Community Cloud cheaper?
On the 8 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Amazon Web Services is cheaper on 0 and RunPod Community Cloud on 8. On average RunPod Community Cloud is 68% 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, A10G, T4; RunPod Community Cloud alone prices B300, H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, RTX 6000 Ada, L40, RTX 5090, H200 NVL, MI300X, RTX 5080, A40, RTX 4090, RTX A6000, RTX 4080, RTX 3090, RTX A4000, RTX A5000. They are different kinds of provider — Amazon Web Services is a hyperscaler, RunPod Community Cloud a marketplace — 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 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.