GPU.ai vs RunPod Community Cloud
21 GPUs in common. GPU.ai is cheaper on 4, RunPod Community Cloud on 16; on average RunPod Community Cloud is 18% below GPU.ai.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | GPU.ai | RunPod Community Cloud | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $7.78 | $5.98 | RunPod Community Cloud −23% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.69 | $2.69 | RunPod Community Cloud −27% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $3.59 | $3.59 | same | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H200 NVL | $3.46 | $0.50 | RunPod Community Cloud −86% | $3.72 |
| NVIDIA H100 NVL | $3.05 | $2.59 | RunPod Community Cloud −15% | $3.03 |
| NVIDIA H100 PCIe | $2.43 | $1.99 | RunPod Community Cloud −18% | $2.88 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.84 | $1.69 | RunPod Community Cloud −8% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.21 | $1.29 | GPU.ai −6% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA A100 40GB | $0.89 | $1.00 | GPU.ai −11% | $1.48 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.80 | $0.79 | RunPod Community Cloud −1% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA L40 | $0.78 | $0.69 | RunPod Community Cloud −12% | $0.86 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.73 | $0.69 | RunPod Community Cloud −5% | $0.69 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5080 | $0.67 | $0.39 | RunPod Community Cloud −42% | $0.53 |
| NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada | $0.65 | $0.74 | GPU.ai −12% | $0.82 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.60 | $0.34 | RunPod Community Cloud −43% | $0.60 |
| NVIDIA A40 | $0.49 | $0.35 | RunPod Community Cloud −29% | $0.65 |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | $0.44 | $0.33 | RunPod Community Cloud −24% | $0.56 |
| NVIDIA L4 | $0.38 | $0.44 | GPU.ai −14% | $0.80 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4080 | $0.34 | $0.27 | RunPod Community Cloud −21% | $0.31 |
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | $0.34 | $0.22 | RunPod Community Cloud −34% | $0.25 |
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | $0.27 | $0.16 | RunPod Community Cloud −41% | $0.27 |
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Questions
Is GPU.ai or RunPod Community Cloud cheaper?
On the 21 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, GPU.ai is cheaper on 4 and RunPod Community Cloud on 16, with 1 tied. On average RunPod Community Cloud is 18% cheaper 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 nothing the other lacks; RunPod Community Cloud alone prices B300, MI300X, V100 16GB, RTX A4000.
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 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.