GPU.ai vs RunPod Secure Cloud
20 GPUs in common. GPU.ai is cheaper on 15, RunPod Secure Cloud on 3; on average RunPod Secure Cloud is 18% above GPU.ai.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | GPU.ai | RunPod Secure Cloud | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $7.78 | $6.79 | RunPod Secure Cloud −13% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.69 | $3.49 | RunPod Secure Cloud −5% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $3.59 | $4.59 | GPU.ai −22% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H200 NVL | $3.46 | $3.79 | GPU.ai −9% | $3.72 |
| NVIDIA H100 NVL | $3.05 | $3.19 | GPU.ai −4% | $3.03 |
| NVIDIA H100 PCIe | $2.43 | $2.89 | GPU.ai −16% | $2.88 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.84 | $2.14 | GPU.ai −14% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.21 | $1.59 | GPU.ai −24% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.80 | $1.09 | GPU.ai −27% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA L40 | $0.78 | $0.82 | GPU.ai −5% | $0.86 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.73 | $0.99 | GPU.ai −26% | $0.69 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5080 | $0.67 | $0.59 | RunPod Secure Cloud −12% | $0.53 |
| NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada | $0.65 | $0.84 | GPU.ai −23% | $0.82 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.60 | $0.74 | GPU.ai −19% | $0.60 |
| NVIDIA A40 | $0.49 | $0.49 | same | $0.65 |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | $0.44 | $0.53 | GPU.ai −18% | $0.56 |
| NVIDIA L4 | $0.38 | $0.49 | GPU.ai −22% | $0.80 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4080 | $0.34 | $0.50 | GPU.ai −32% | $0.31 |
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | $0.34 | $0.50 | GPU.ai −33% | $0.25 |
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | $0.27 | $0.27 | same | $0.27 |
Only one of them has it
Questions
Is GPU.ai or RunPod Secure Cloud cheaper?
On the 20 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, GPU.ai is cheaper on 15 and RunPod Secure Cloud on 3, with 2 tied. On average RunPod Secure Cloud is 18% more expensive than GPU.ai across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
GPU.ai alone prices A100 40GB; RunPod Secure Cloud alone prices B300, MI300X, RTX A4000. They are different kinds of provider — GPU.ai is a marketplace, RunPod Secure Cloud a neocloud — which is most of why the prices differ.
Where do these prices come from?
GPU.ai: 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.